Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sphere five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The sphere contains water and finely divided carbon. The focused light passes through the clear water without heating it. But when the light strikes the opaque carbon, the carbon heats almost instantly and in turn heats the water, which turns to steam. The steam escapes through a hole in the top of the sphere, whence it could be piped to operate a steam piston, and so an engine...
...tunnel, which will serve as a connecting link between the new source and the existing Harvard system is to be eight feet square. It will provide steam for all those University buildings immediate to the existing centers in Cambridge, the Harvard Union an such outlying buildings as the Observatory excepted...
...freight cars. The New York Central R. R. ordered 42 electric locomotives for handling freight to cost over $100,000 each. Leonor Fresnel Loree ("Little Giant") announced that his Delaware & Hudson R. R. was constructing a $125,000 locomotive to have 14% working efficiency compared to the present 7%. Steam pressure in this engine will be the highest yet obtained...
...internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise U. S. Army motor transport, was made Chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur...
...Francisco, John Coylson, tramp, was offended when arrested for cooking a stew in the big dipper of an idle steam shovel...