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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.

Two huge steam engines had snorted and puffed for three whole years.

Greenlaw (Charles P.), his efforts in obtaining steam for India, 560.

The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.

The Comet started on her first trip up the Arkansas, being the first steam boat that ascended that river.

The first steam rolling mill, with the exception of the one at Soho, was put up at Bradley ironworks.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

The first engine worked by steam in this town that we have record of was put up at same works in Water Street, in 1760.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

This engine only took steam during the first quarter of its stroke, the remaining three-quarters were by the expansion.

Trevithick was equally ready with the application of steam-power either for pumping of water or for boring and removing rock.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985