beam engine

British  

noun

1. an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end

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beam engine

In fifth place, with 10% of the votes, was the Crossness Engine House, and the James Watt rotative beam engine.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2014

Q.--What are the proper dimensions of the main links of a land beam engine?

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

The only type of steam engine then in existence was the Newcomen beam engine, which had been introduced in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen, also an Englishman.

From Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt by Eugene S. Ferguson

It is a standard American beam engine, with a cylinder 75 inches in diameter and 12 feet stroke of piston, and develops 3,850 horse power.

From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

Under these circumstances the best form, in the vast majority of cases where machinery must be driven, is undoubtedly the horizontal engine, and the worst the beam engine.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

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