11 sentences with 'steam'
Example sentences and phrases with the word steam and other words derived from it.
• « A few months after his mother died, young Henry was traveling with his father in a horse-drawn wagon and saw a steam engine coming toward him, propelled by its own power. »
• « That steam engine was an adaptation of the vertical boilers used by farmers to move small machinery. »
• « The steam engine that had inspired Henry as a boy had been a farm engine ... and a farm engine also induced him to forget Detroit for some time. »
• « The prescriptions of the Greek Hippocrates of steam baths, wet compresses and hot water bottles, applications of mud, barley or bran, were basic procedures that transcended those early times and are also used today. »
• « The Mayans and the Sioux, before going into battle, would take steam baths and then put cold compresses on their bodies to build up their strength. »
• « Technologies as diverse and important as the steam engine and antibiotics originated in the West. »
• « Most importantly, a Scottish engineer named James Watt developed an efficient steam engine in 1763, which was subsequently manufactured in 1775 (Watt was not the inventor of the concept, but his design was far more efficient than earlier versions). »
• « By the end of the 19th century, a single "mule" (a spinning invention linked to steam power in 1803) could produce yarn 200 to 300 times faster than could be done by hand. By 1850, Britain was producing 200 times more cotton cloth than in 1780. »