Word: steam-driven
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...Midwest were packing into Detroit's chromium-pillared Convention Hall last week. There was an automobile assembly line. Tight-rope walkers and acrobats performed from time to time. More than 175 companies allied to the automobile business had displays. There was a series of automobiles beginning with a steam-driven model of 1863 and ending with a super-streamlined car by Briggs Manufacturing Co. which, lacking running boards, comfortably accommodated three people on its wide front seat. Lean old Henry Ford, who never exhibits his cars with other manufacturers and who took no part in Chicago's Century...
...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...
...Northwestern's announcement came almost exactly on the hundredth anniversary of the steam engine. On Sept. 27, 1825, with no small ceremony and excitement the hitherto horse-drawn cars running from the Darlington coal mines to the Stockton docks (County Durham, England) 37 miles away, were hitched to a steam-driven wagon invented by Engineer George Stephenson of Scotland...
...Coach Roper had brought up a steam-driven wedge, he would not have received better results than he did from his line of forwards. A gaping hole was awaking the Tiger carrier every time; an impenetrable blockade was awaiting the Crimson runner. A day before the game Princeton undergraduates had said "Watch Beatile." Those who took their advice saw one of the prettiest exhibitions of line play that has been seen in the Stadium for many years. He was uncontrollable as he plunged through the Harvard attack or pushed aside the Crimson defense to make a path for a driving...