atmospheric engine
noun
an early form of single-acting engine in which the power stroke is provided by atmospheric pressure acting upon a piston in an exhausted cylinder.
Origin of atmospheric engine
1First recorded in 1815–25
Words Nearby atmospheric engine
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How to use atmospheric engine in a sentence
The cylinder was let down into the top of the boiler, and like Newcomen's atmospheric engine had no cylinder cover.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThis Piston T S, acts only one way, like that of an atmospheric engine, a thing now quite out of date!
A New Century of Inventions | James WhiteThe essential features of the atmospheric engine were not new.
Stories of Invention | Edward E. HaleThis is the extent as far as I know of Savory's claim to be the inventor of the atmospheric engine.
The Stoker's Catechism | W. J. ConnorOn the other hand, the atmospheric engine was limited in its power only by the dimensions of its piston.
The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) | Dionysius Lardner
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