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beam engine

beam engine noun: a kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.

Noun

beam engine (plural beam engines)

  1. A kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.
    • The locomotives of the day had insufficient power to work the trains up the gradient, and it was decided to install beam type steam engines on the platform at Edge Hill Station, to haul them on an endless hempen rope through the tunnel, 2,230 yd. long. The beam engines were placed in service in...1951 July, W. R. Watson, “An Edge Hill Beam Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 489

beam engine meaning in Tamil

beam engine in Tamil

உந்துதண்டு நீராவி எந்திரம்

Forms of beam engine

pluralbeam engines

Questions about beam engine

What does beam engine mean?
Beam engine means a kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.
What is beam engine in Tamil?
Beam engine in Tamil is உந்துதண்டு நீராவி எந்திரம். See Beam engine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is beam engine?
Beam engine is a noun.
What is the plural of beam engine?
The plural of beam engine is beam engines.

Words near beam engine in the dictionary

  1. beam
  2. beam and scales
  3. Beam Bridge
  4. beam compass
  5. beam compasses
  6. beam engine
  7. beam engines
  8. beam feather
  9. beam feathers
  10. beam hole
  11. beam reach

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