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beam engines

beam engines is the plural of beam engine.

Meaning of beam engine

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

Questions about beam engines

What is beam engines the plural of?
Beam engines is the plural of beam engine.

Words near beam engines in the dictionary

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

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