Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Globalize date December 2010 File Mammoth Cave Railroad dummy steam engine.JPG thumb right 300px Mammoth Cave Railroad steam dummy engine. A steam dummy or dummy engine , in the United States of America and Canada , was a steam engine enclosed in a wood en box structure made to resemble a railroad passenger coach. Steam dummies had some popularity in the first decades of railroading in the U.S., from the 1830s but passed from favor after the United States Civil War Civil War . It was thought that the more familiar appearance of a coach presented by a steam dummy, as compared to a conventional engine, would be less likely to frighten horses when these trains had to operate in city street s. Later it was discovered that it was actually the noise and motion of the operating gear of a steam engine that frightened horse s, rather than the unfamiliar outlines of a steam engine. Many steam dummies were simply locomotive s enclosed in coach s clothing, but some combined an actual railroad coach in the same body with the locomotive, creating an all in one vehicle that was a predecessor of later self propelled rail cars, usually powered by electricity or petrol . See also Doodlebug rail car Doodlebug Multiple unit Tram engine Steam Railmotor DEFAULTSORT Steam Dummy Category Rolling stock Steam loco stub ja ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 article A steam drum is a standard feature of a water tube boiler . It is a reservoir of water steam at the top end of the water tubes. The drum stores the steam generated in the water tubes and acts as a phase Vapor liquid separator separator for the steam water mixture . The difference in densities between hot and cold water helps in the accumulation of the hotter water and saturated steam into the steam drum. Image Water tube boiler schematic.png thumb right 400px Schematic diagram of a marine type water tube boiler see the steam drum at the top and feed drum Construction Made from high Carbon Steel with high tensile strength and its working involves temperatures around 390 sup o sup C and pressures well above 350 psi 2.4MPa . The separated steam is drawn out from the top section of the drum and distributed for process. Further heating of the saturated steam will make superheated steam normally used to drive a steam turbine . Saturated steam is drawn off the top of the drum and re enters the furnace in through a superheater . The steam and water mixture enters the steam drum through riser tubes, drum internals consisting of demister separate the water droplets from the steam producing dry steam. The saturated water at the bottom of the steam drum flows down through the downcomer pipe, normally unheated, to headers and water drum. Its accessories ... to the steam drum through a feed pipe extending inside the drum, along the length of the steam drum. A steam drum is used without or in the company of a mud drum feed water drum which is located at a lower level. A boiler with both steam drum and mud water drum is called a bi drum boiler and a boiler with only a steam drum is called a mono drum boiler. The bi drum boiler construction is normally ... rating. On steam locomotives the steam drum is also called a steam dome DEFAULTSORT Steam Drum Category Steam boiler components ar de Trommel Dampfkessel pl Walczak ... more details
Steam World is an English railway magazine covering steam locomotives. It is published monthly by Steam World Publishing . Issue August 2007 is issue 242. ISSN ISSN 0959 0897 See also List of railroad related periodicals Incomplete date February 2009 Category British transport magazines Category Rail transport magazines UK rail transport stub ... more details
File Steam Cranes geograph.org.uk 445452.jpg thumb Railway steam crane, with vertical cross tube boiler , at Summerlee Heritage Park Image Fairbairn steam crane side view.jpg thumb right Fairbairn steam crane in Bristol Image Mbb canal steam crane sion.jpg thumb right Derelict Smith Rodley, West Yorkshire Rodley crane, on the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal A steam crane is a crane machine crane powered by a steam engine . It may be fixed or mobile and, if mobile, it may run on rail tracks , caterpillar track s, road wheels, or be mounted on a barge. It usually has a vertical boiler placed at the back so that the weight of the boiler counterbalances the weight of the jib and load. They were very common as railway breakdown cranes and several have been preserved on heritage railway s in the United Kingdom . Manufacturers Black Hawthorn Gateshead Black Hawthorn Gateshead unrestored example at Beamish Museum ref http www.beamishcollections.com collections display.asp?ItemID 1498&mainsearchpage 2 Beamish collections archive search ref Joseph Booth & Bros of Leeds Coles Cranes of Derby restored example at Beamish Museum Cowans, Sheldon & Company of Carlisle rail cranes William Fairbairn & Sons of Manchester Ruston & Hornsby Ruston Proctor of Lincoln Stothert & Pitt of Bath Thomas Smith & Sons Rodley Ltd of Leeds See also File RvancoppSteamCrane1262010.jpg thumb Steam powered Overhead crane from 1875 Crane machine Crane Crane railroad Crane tank Steam shovel Fairbairn steam crane References reflist See external links External links commons cat steam cranes http www.watercressline.co.uk tw pages ds1580.htm Ransomes & Rapier steam crane http www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk 8742.html Cowans & Sheldon steam crane http www.semgonline.com misc 9elmscrane.html Nine Elms steam crane http www.scienceandsociety.co.uk results.asp?image 10306848 Model steam crane Category Steam cranes Category Cranes machines Category Steam road vehicles Crane engineering stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A steam brig is a two masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam engine steam power . The advantage was supposed to be that the ship could sail up wind when it was convenient, and additionally, it could use the steam power to move relative to the wind to obtain a more advantageous angle to the wind. In practice, the disadvantages combined rather than the advantages. The type had great wind resistance, leading to an increased use of fuel up wind compared to a pure steam ship. At the same time, the requirement to store coal reduced the cargo space over that of a sailing ship. It thus combined the slow speed, high maintenance and poor righting ability to resist capsize and wind of a sailing ship with the small cargo space and fuel expense of a steam ship. See also sail plan rigging sailing ship steam ship DEFAULTSORT Steam Brig Category Sailboat types Category Sailing rigs and rigging Category Ship types Category Steamboats Category Auxiliary steamers ship type stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Steam railroad is a term used in the United States of America United States to distinguish conventional heavy railroad s from street railway s, interurban streetcar lines, and other light railway s usually dedicated primarily to passenger transport. Steam railroads were so called because they were typically powered by steam locomotives hauling unpowered passenger or freight cars, as opposed to light railways that were more typically powered by electric ity, cable car railway cable or animal power. The term steam railroad continued in use in the generic sense long after most steam power disappeared from American railroads by the 1950s, but is now only used to describe tourist railroads that run steam locomotives. See also steam locomotive tourist railroad DEFAULTSORT Steam Railroad Category Rail transportation in the United States ... more details
File Steam trap Hyde and Farron, Ashton under Lyne c.1885.png thumb Three views of a c.1885 steam trap .... A steam trap is a device used to discharge condensate and non condensable gases with a negligible consumption or loss of live steam . Most steam traps are nothing more than automatic valve s. They open ... to obstruct the steam flow. The three important functions of steam traps are Discharge condensate as soon as it is formed. Have a negligible steam consumption. Have the capability of discharging air and other non condensable gases. Basic operation The best and simplest form of steam trap is a disc .... Since steam condensate will collect at the lowest point and live steam is as about 1200 greater in volume than this hot liquid, condensate is effectively removed and steam is blocked. Mechanical steam traps basically open when condensate needs to be removed, and close when there is only steam present. Steam traps work best when sized specifically for the application they are used on. Generally ... or obstruct for live steam. However an over sized steam trap will wear quickly, waste energy use steam , and if drastically over sized can cause process issues. Types Steam traps can be split into four ... operate in direct relationship to condensate levels present in the body of the steam trap. Inverted ... fluids. As steam enters, static pressure above the disk forces the disk against the valve seat. The static pressure over a large area overcomes the high inlet pressure of the steam. As the steam ... makes a TD trap a time cycle device it will open even if there is only steam present, this can ... eventual steam also tries to pass the venturi. But while traversing the venturi towards the low pressure zone the steam expands and chokes the throughput together with the slow condensate. Because of this, the amount of live steam escaping the orifice is negligible. External links http www.tlv.com global articles cep 1102 understanding steam traps.pdf Understanding Steam Traps American Institute ... more details
Infobox tunnel name Shimizu Tunnel image Shinshimizu.jpg caption Entrance of Shin Shimizu tunnel. line J etsu Line location Gunma Prefecture Gunma and Niigata Prefecture s, Japan coordinates system status start end stations open 1931 close owner operator JR East character linelength tracklength notrack gauge el speed hielevation lowelevation height grade nihongo Shimizu Tunnel Shimizu tonneru is a Rail transport in Japan railroad tunnel in Gunma Prefecture Gunma and Niigata Prefecture s of Japan , operated by JR East J etsu Line . The name originates from the Shimizu mountain pass nearby. There are three tunnels near each other, which are the Shimizu Tunnel, the Shin Shimizu Tunnel , and the Daishimizu Tunnel Dai Shimizu Tunnel . Shimizu tunnel The Shimizu tunnel is the oldest of the three, opened in 1931 ref http www.jreast.co.jp history table index.html JR East timeline ref after nine years of construction. The length of the tunnel is 9,702 m, and has a Single track rail single track . Because of technical difficulties at the time, a spiral railway spiral was built, with a diameter of 800 m. ref http www.d4.dion.ne.jp m mori simizutonneru.html Map around the area ref This tunnel was the longest in Japan at the time. ref name yubiso http www.interq.or.jp mars omr m03b railway m03b yuzawa yubiso.htm Website on Shimizu tunnel ref The construction improved the journey time between Niigata and Tokyo , decreasing it by 4 hours since trains no longer needed to go through the Usui Pass . ref http www.toei.co.jp hotel yuzawa z yuzawa 12.html Toei Hotel introduction to Yuzawa and Joetsu Line ref Because the tunnel was too long to be suitable for steam locomotives , the tracks in and around the tunnel were electrified from the beginning. Shin Shimizu tunnel The Shin Shimizu tunnel was made in 1967 to make the line double track , because of a high demand of transportation on the Joetsu line. The tunnel is 13,500 m long. References Reflist coord missing Japan ... more details
File SteamTractor.jpg thumb Steam tractor at the Steam Pageant Pageant of Steam is an annual steam fair held in the Town of Hopewell, New York Hopewell , New York . It started in 1960 and is hosted by the New York State Steam Engine Association. The fair starts the first Wednesday in August and lasts four days. Besides steam engines , it features an antique tractor pull and a large flea market . Due to the nearby Empire Farm Days event in Seneca Falls village , New York Seneca Falls , held from Tuesday until Thursday ref EmpireFarmDays http www.empirefarmdays.com empirefarmdays.com ref , some of the flea market vendors and many visitors attend the Steam Pageant on Friday and Saturday. Until 1971, when convert 28 acre m2 were purchased on Gehan Road off State Route 5 and US 20 convert 3 mi km East of the City of Canandaigua ref New York Steam Engine Association Pageant of Steam http www.old engine.com cananda.htm old engine.com ref , the event was held at various places, including the old site of Roseland Waterpark . References reflist Roseland Amusement park on Canandaigua lake. External links http www.pageantofsteam.org coord missing New York Category Steam festivals Category Festivals in New York Category Visitor attractions in Ontario County, New York ... more details
live steam locomotive in RailGauge 7.25 gauge, built in 14,000 hours over a period of 15 years. Live steam is steam under pressure, obtained by heating water in a boiler . The steam is used to operate stationary or moving equipment. A live steam machine or device is one powered by steam, but the term ... similar devices powered by electricity or some other more convenient method but designed to look as if they are steam powered. Revenue earning steam powered machines such as mainline and narrow gauge steam locomotives , steamship s, and power generating steam turbine s are not normally referred to as live steam . Scale models and railroads Image Lsfestival.jpg thumb 250px A Live Steam Festival displaying ... The term live steam usually refers to a Rail transport modelling model steam locomotive, or any other steam operated model that is powered by steam produced by boiling water, often built by a hobby ist model engineering model engineer . Steam roller s and traction engine s are popular, in 1 4 or 1 3 scale, as are model stationary steam engine s, ranging from pocket size to 1 2 scale. Ridable, large scale live steam railroading on a backyard railroad is a popular aspect of the live steam hobby ... the benefits of real steam engines and at lower cost and in less space , but do not provide ... it, while doing so. One of the most famous live steam railroads was Walt Disney s Carolwood Pacific ... 250px thumb A propane fired 1 8 scale live steam train running on the Finnish Railway Museum s miniature RailGauge 7.25 track. The live steam hobby is especially popular in the UK, USA, and Australia ... backyard railroads. The world s largest live steam layout, with over convert 25 mi km 0 of RailGauge ... and the one operated by Riverside Live Steamers. Although not technically live steam, the hobby embraces ... tracks restrict operation to only live steam engines, such as the Riverside Live Steamers mentioned above, but a visit to most tracks will reveal a mixture of locomotive types. Scale A live steam locomotive ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2011 File Steam powered fire engine.jpg 200px thumb right Preserved British steam powered fire engine an example of a mobile steam engine. This is a horse drawn vehicle the steam engine drives the water pump Steam pumper fire engines were used from 1860 to 1920 to pump water on city fires. Large urban fire departments would invest in fire brigades, or engine companies, to assist in fire fighting. Concomitant with the steam engine would be a house, horses and dalmatian dogs used to guide and calm the horses . The growing cities in the US west would invest in steam pumpers usually after a devastating fire that would destroy large parts of the wooden frontier town. The vertical fast firing boilers, while heavy, was an effective fire fighting equipment. For a few years, c. 1910 20, the horses were retired and the steam pumper was hauled by a gas tractor. Small two wheel units for hand movement were built in England to help fight incendiary fires during the Luftwaffe The Blitz Blitz . A few builders were American, Waterous, Merriwether, and Amoskeag and Shand Mason. Category Firefighting equipment Category Steam power ... more details
A Steam accumulator is an Thermal insulation insulated steel pressure tank containing hot water and steam under pressure . It is a type of energy storage device. It can be used to smooth out peaks and troughs in demand for steam. Steam accumulators may take on a significance for energy storage in solar thermal energy projects. An example is the PS10 solar power tower plant near Seville , Spain . ref http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi sci tech 6616651.stm ref and is planned for the solar steam train project in Sacramento, California ref http solarsteamtrain.com cms ref Image Pimlico accumulator tower 1.jpg thumb right District heating steam accumulator tower on the Churchill Gardens Estate, Pimlico , London , United Kingdom . This plant once used waste heat piped from Battersea Power Station on the opposite ... and steam is blown in from a boiler via a perforated pipe near the bottom of the drum. Some of the steam .... When the accumulator is fully charged the condensed steam will have raised the water level in the drum to about three quarters full and the temperature and pressure will also have risen. Discharge Steam can be drawn off as required, either for driving a steam turbine or for process purposes e.g. in chemical engineering , by opening a steam valve on top of the drum. The pressure in the drum will fall but the reduced pressure causes more water to boil and the accumulator can go on supplying steam ... and temperature This steam table shows the relationship between pressure and temperature in a boiler or steam accumulator class wikitable Gauge pressure, PSI bar Absolute pressure, PSI bar Temperature ... F degrees Fahrenheit References Reflist External links http www.spiraxsarco.com resources steam engineering tutorials the boiler house steam accumulators.asp Steam Accumulators A complete overview of the need for steam storage to meet peak load demands in specific industries, including the design, construction and operation of a steam accumulator, with calculations Spirax Sarco See also Fireless ... more details
File 17.5 2 .jpg thumb Experimental prototype of 17.5 mm steam cannon. Russian Empire , 1826 29 years. File Holman Projector in action.jpg thumb Holman Projector prototype in action , 1940. A steam cannon is a cannon that launches a projectile using only heat and water. The first steam cannon was designed by Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse . Citation needed date January 2012 Leonardo da Vinci was also known to have designed one the Architonnerre . The device would consist of a large metal tube, preferably copper due to its high thermal conductivity, which would be placed in a furnace. One end of the tube would be capped and the other loaded with a projectile. Once the tube reached a high enough temperature, a small amount of water would be injected in behind the projectile. In theory, Leonardo da Vinci believed, the water would rapidly expand into vapour, blasting the projectile out the front of the barrel. The viability of the concept has been ... fansites mythbusters episode episode 05.html Episode 55 Steam Cannon Breakfast Cereal from the official ... Archimedes s Steam Cannon on the MIT website ref . Age of Steam Various unsuccessful efforts were made during the age of steam to create working steam machine gun s and cannons during the 19th century using methods and technology derived from steam locomotive s. A World War II steam cannon was the Holman Projector . See also William Murdoch invented a steam cannon Hilton Head Island, South Carolina site of experimental steam cannon Winans Steam Gun MythBusters 2007 season Steam Powered Machine Gun MythBusters MythBusters steam machine gun episode Sources http www.lairweb.org.nz leonardo guns.html Cannons Notes reflist External links Commonscat Steam cannons http www.lateralscience.co.uk perkgun index.html Mr Perkins extraordinary steam gun of 1824 article about an attempt by steam pioneer Jacob Perkins to produce a working steam weapon weapon stub Category Steam power Category Pneumatic ... more details
Image Steam Bus.png thumb French steam bus A steam bus is a bus powered by a steam engine . Early steam powered vehicles designed for carrying passengers were more usually known as steam carriages , although ... History of steam road vehicles Image Obeissante.jpg thumb right Am d e Boll e s L Ob issante 1875 1830 1895 Regular intercity bus services by steam powered buses were pioneered in England in the 1830s ... reliable services over road conditions which were too hazardous for horse drawn transportation. Steam ... damage to roads . According to engineers, steam carriages caused one third the damage to the road surface as that caused by the action of horses feet. Indeed, the wide tires of the steam carriages ... L. ref However, the heavy road Toll road tolls imposed by the Turnpike Act s discouraged steam road ... a steam carriage for use in Aston , Birmingham, UK. Capable of carrying ten people at speeds of up ... cite web last Hogan first Jill title The Inshaw Steam Carriage url http www.astonbrook through ... 2010 ref 1896 1919 The Red Flag Act was repealed in 1896, and experimental steam buses were again ... Steam Car Company to run steam buses in London. Four chassis were imported by the New South Wales ... of that city. By 1914 the company had 184 steam buses in London, but they had all been withdrawn ..., Chapter 1 ref 1920 present Steam power for road transportation saw a modest revival in the 1920s. It was economical ..., with steam cars such as the Doble Steam Car Doble requiring a mere 40 seconds to start from cold. The American company Brooks Steam Motors of Buffalo produced steam city buses. Modern commercial operations A steam bus, Steam bus Elizabeth Elizabeth operates in the English seaside town of Whitby . See also Brooks Steam Motors Goldsworthy Gurney Walter Hancock Steam engine References Reflist External links Commons category Steam powered buses Steam buses http www.petergould.co.uk local transport history generalhistories general steambus.htm The Steam Bus 1833 1923 by Peter Gould http www.locomobile.charitydays.co.uk ... more details
File 1912 Staney steam car.JPG thumb Stanley Steamer Stanley Steam Car 1912 File 1909 White.jpg thumb White touring car 1909 A steam car is a light automobile car automobile powered by a steam engine . Steam locomotives, steam engines capable of propelling themselves along either road or rails, developed ... with both steam and internal combustion engines, as both engineering and road building matured. As the steam car could use the vast experience of steam engines already developed with the steam locomotive steam railway locomotive , it initially had the advantage. In 1900 the steam car was broadly ... had progressed to such a point that the steam car was an anachronism. Few steam cars have been built ... a modern steam car with modern levels of convenience, performance and efficiency. The greatest technical challenges to the steam car have focused on its steam boiler boiler . This represents ... be fitted with a Condenser heat transfer condenser , a further weight and inconvenience. The steam car ... Serie 740. To the right is the condenser A steam engine is an external combustion engine ECE ... efficiency of 15 to 30 , early automotive steam units were capable of only about half this efficiency ..., thus avoiding pollution. Steam powered and electric cars outsold gasoline powered ones ... electricity batteries ran low. Early steam cars, once working pressure was attained, could be instantly ... will more than overcome the weight of a gearbox, and need to run even at idle. ref name Setright, Steam, 2170 cite book last Setright first L.J.K. title Steam The Romantic Illusion editor Northey, Tom ... in the working fluid in steam cars, this heat exchange must be larger and more rapid, and so, too, must the radiator. ref name Setright, Steam, 2170 Early steam cars Main history of steam road vehicles Although the first applications of steam to propelling a road vehicle were attempted in the 17th century, it was not until the advent of high pressure steam engines, in the early 19th century ... more details
Image CugnotAppleton.jpg thumbnail Cugnot s Steam Wagon, from a 19th century engraving A steam tricycle is a steam engine steam driven Tricycle three wheeled vehicle . History In the early days of motorised vehicle development, a number of experimenters built steam powered vehicles with three wheels. The first steam tricycle and probably the first true self propelled land vehicle was Nicolas Joseph Cugnot s 1769 Fardier vapeur steam dray , a three wheeled machine with a top speed of around 3 km ... development was undertaken. The Long steam tricycle appears to be one of the earliest preserved ... http www.remarkablecars.com for sale steam powered cars p19778 1880 long steam tricycle.html title 1880 Long Steam Tricycle Pictures publisher Remarkablecars.com date 2009 06 17 accessdate 2010 07 ... ONTHEMOVE collection object 280.html title America on the Move & 124 Long steam tricycle publisher Americanhistory.si.edu date 2008 10 24 accessdate 2010 07 29 ref In 1881 the Parkyns Bateman steam tricycle was demonstrated in England . It used a petroleum fired steam boiler making it the first petroleum powered vehicle , driving a double acting two cylinder steam engine on the chassis of a Cheylesmore ... from 1912 to 1922. A small steam tricycle was built by Albert, Comte de Dion in 1887. This had ... thumbnail L on Serpollet s coal fired steam tricycle from 1888 In the same year L on Serpollet also constructed a coal fired steam tricycle, with the steam generator boiler mounted between two rear wheels. These and other experimenters also built four wheeled steam powered vehicles. The invention of the internal combustion engine led to the replacement of steam in most cases, although steam car s continue to be built to the present day in small numbers. Bibliography Singer, Charles ... also History of steam road vehicles Steamroller Timeline of transportation technology Traction engine References reflist Category Steam road vehicles Tricycle Category Three wheeled motor vehicles Category ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2010 A steam room is an enclosed space with large amounts of high temperature steam, creating a high humidity environment. People sit in this room in a similar way to a sauna conversely a hot, but dry atmosphere , for relaxation and purported benefits to health and well being. They can be commonly found in Health club gyms , sanatarium sanitariums and health resort s. Smaller, standalone steamroom enclosures can also be found in residential buildings. Steam rooms are commonly maintained at a temperature of 41 degrees Citation needed date July 2010 celsius or above, with a high humidity of around 100 adding to the sensation. In comparison, saunas are maintained at a much higher temperature due to the lack of humidity in the air around 73 degrees celsius . The Kilowatts of power required for steam generation varies depending on construction style. See also Banya sauna , a Russian steambath Turkish bath , a Turkish steambath Steam shower Sauna DEFAULTSORT Steam Room Category Bathing health stub ... more details
thumb Blacksmith s using a small steam drop hammer at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway shops in Topeka, Kansas Topeka , Kansas , 1943 A steam hammer is a power hammer driven by steam ... . The hammer is raised by the pressure of steam injected into the lower part of a cylinder and falls down with a force by removing the steam. Usually, the hammer is made to fall faster by injecting steam into the upper part of the cylinder. Steam hammers that fall by their own weight are called steam drop hammers . Steam hammers vary greatly in weight from 45 kilograms to 90 metric tons. The steam ... Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal . From the first, Nasmyth s steam hammer ... now a business park . A larger Nasmyth & Wilson steam hammer stands in the campus of the University of Bolton . The intended first use of the steam hammer lay in forging the paddle shaft of the SS Great ... of the hammer was left to the Schneider Electric , Creusot foundry in Le Creusot , France . The steam ... also developed a revolutionary steam powered pile driver pile driving machine . At its first ... 263 ref See also Creusot steam hammer Trip hammer Power hammer Frohnauer Hammer Mill References Reflist External links commonscat Steam hammers http files.asme.org asmeorg Communities History Landmarks 10265.pdf The Creusot steam hammer An International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark The American ... Steam hammer at the East Broad Top Railroad http www.scotforge.com videos sf hammer320 240.mpg Video of steam hammer in modern use at Scot Forge Metalworking navbox toolopen Category Hammers Category Metalworking tools Category Scottish inventions Category Steam power cs Buchar de Maschinenhammer ... more details
unreferenced date June 2008 Infobox Weapon name US Army Corps of Engineers Steam Tank image Image US Army Corps Of Engineers Steam Tank 1918.jpg 300px caption The US Army Corps of Engineers Steam Tank the sponson is absent origin flagcountry United States is vehicle yes length 10.6 m width 3.8 m height 3.2 m weight 50.8 t suspension unsprung speed 6 km h vehicle range ? primary armament flamethrower secondary armament four .30 cal. machine guns armour 13 mm engine 2 steam engine steam engine power 500 hp 373 kW pw ratio 9.8 hp tonne crew 8 WWIAFVs state collapsed The Steam Tank Tracked was an early U.S. tank design of 1918 imitating the design of the British Mark IV tank but powered by steam . The type was designed by an officer from the U.S. Army s Corps Of Engineers. The project was started by General John A. Johnson with the help of the Endicott and Johnson Shoe Company and financed by the Boston ... Carriage Company in Watertown, Massachusetts , that produced steam cars. The engines and boilers of two Unit Railway Cars were built in. Earlier fighting vehicles projects had employed steam power because petrol engines were not yet powerful enough the Steam Tank however used it for the main reason ... this weapon driven by steam. When the main device to build up sufficient pressure became a Convert 35 hp kW 0 abbr on auxiliary gasoline engine, the two main 2 cylinder steam engines with a combined ... of convert 4 mi h km h 0 abbr on . The transmission allowed two speeds forward and two in reverse. The steam ... another steam powered AFV project the Steam Wheel Tank that didn t use tracks but was three ... with a dangerous vulnerability due to its two steam boilers and large fuel reservoirs needed to heat ... States Category Steam road vehicles Tank Category Trial and research tanks ca Tanc Steam de Steam Tank et Aurutank it Steam Tank carro armato hu Steam tank ms Kereta kebal Wap ja pl Steam Tank pt Tanque a vapor ru sl Steam tank ... more details
one source date November 2010 This article refers to the steam powered agricultural tractor for other types of steam tractor, see Traction engine Image CaseSteamTractor.JPG thumb Case steam tractor File SteamTractor.jpg thumb Steam tractor with a roof at the Pageant of Steam A steam tractor is a vehicle powered by a steam engine which is used for pulling. In North America , the term steam tractor usually refers to a type of agriculture agricultural tractor powered by a steam engine , used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Great Britain , the term steam tractor is more usually ... used for hauling small loads on public roads. Although known as light steam tractors , these engines are generally just smaller versions of the road locomotive . This article concentrates on the steam ... of steam powered agricultural machines differed considerably on either side of the Atlantic ... as steam tractors . Instead, farmers resorted to cable hauled ploughing using ploughing engine s. A distinctive example of a British designed agricultural steam tractor is the Richard Garrett & Sons ... Best Manufacturing Company Best steam tractor manufactured in California . The first steam tractors ... and transported to the work area using horses. Later models used the power of the steam engine ..., compounded engines, and butt strap boiler design. The steam engine was gradually phased ... driving the bundle racks, pitching bundles into the threshing machine, supplying water for the steam engine, hauling away the freshly threshed grain and scooping it into the granary. Steam traction ... formed. In a threshing ring, multiple farmers pooled their resources to purchase a steam engine. They also chose one person among them to go to a steam school, to learn how to run the engine properly ... farms, hiring themselves out to thresh grain. Ploughing The immense pulling power of steam tractors allowed them to be used for ploughing as well. Certain steam tractors were better suited for ploughing ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A steam rupture occurs within a pressurized system of super critical water when the pressure exceeds the design plus safety margin specification. A steam rupture can occur in any elevated temperature pressurized system, including, but not limited to Automobile cooling systems, stationary power plants, mobile power plants, steam driven tools such as some trip hammer s , and even the delivery systems for application processes such as cleaning and fabric fullering. DEFAULTSORT Steam Rupture Category Mechanical engineering Category Failure Tech stub ... more details
coord 51.839 2.512 display title region GB scale 10000 Steam Mills is a village in the Forest of Dean , west Gloucestershire , England . It has an industrial park for businesses including a brewery named after the Forest of Dean custom of free mining , petrol filling station, carpet shop and Health & Safety specialist shop. It is home to Steam Mills Primary School. External links http www.geograph.org.uk search.php?i 3687593 photos of Steam Mills and surrounding area on geograph http www.fweb.org.uk Dean education stmills.htm Steam Mills Primary http website.lineone.net freeminer.brewery Freeminers Brewery containing other local links Category Forest of Dean Gloucestershire geo stub ... more details
Superpower steam was a term coined by Lima Locomotive Works in the mid 1920s. It referred to steam locomotives with booster equipped four wheel trailing trucks supporting large fireboxes, as well as enlarged superheater s. The wheel arrangements introduced in the 1920s for these locomotives included the 4 6 4 , 2 8 4 , 4 8 4 and 2 10 4 . The term superpower was often applied to all engines of these wheel arrangements afterward, though many did not have boosters and almost all steam of any wheel arrangement built after that time had large superheaters. Category Steam locomotive technologies Rail stub ... more details
Image Tom Raffiled Chaise Lounge No4.jpg thumb right alt Example of a 3 D steam bent chair developed by Tom Raffield. 3 D steam bent chair by Tom Raffield Steam bending is a woodworking technique where strips of wood are heated using a steam box . The applied heat makes the wood pliable and it is then easy to bend around a mould to create a specific shape. The method has been used in the manufacturing of a diverse range of products, some examples being wooden boat building where it is used in the shaping of boat frames, the production of traditional wooden lacrosse stick s, musical instruments such as violin s and in the manufacture of wooden furniture like the Windsor chair . ref name steambending Cite book author Various Authors title Fine woodworking on Bending Wood year 1985 publisher Taunton Press isbn 0918804299 pages 2 119 url http books.google.co.uk books?id VrENESuik3cC&lpg PA16&dq fine 20furniture 20steam 20bending&pg PA16 v onepage&q fine 20furniture 20steam 20bending&f false ref Steam bending is limited in the degree of bend it can achieve, particularly for thick members. Also, not all species of wood steam bend well. ref name steambending It weakens the wood slightly and can leave residual stresses which may cause breakage or spring back over time. See also Heat bending of wood Steam box References Reflist Woodworking Category Woodworking techniques woodworking stub ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2010 File Steambox 800.jpg thumb Steam box formerly used in shipbuilding at historic Axel Stenross slipway, Port Lincoln, South Australia File Steambox2 800.jpg thumb Steam box oven at historic Axel Stenross slipway, Port Lincoln, South Australia A steam box is a long, sealed container used to steam wooden planks for the purpose of making them easier to bend. Once fastened or clamped into the desired position and left to dry, the wood will hold the new shape. Steam boxes allow for much more efficient use of wood. Instead of cutting the desired shape away from a large and more expensive piece of wood and leaving much scrap to be discarded, steam boxes allow for a smaller piece to be bent in the general shape and leaving much less scrap. Steam boxes also allow the wood to bend beyond its dry breaking point, which is useful in making extreme curves with the wood. In many cases, the bent piece is stronger than an identical piece cut from larger stock. Steam bending wood allows the wood grain to follow the bend, leaving it strong where a piece cut from larger stock would snap across crosscut grains or laminated joints. The largest steam boxes are used in shipbuilding to bend the large planks for the frame and hull. However, smaller ones are used in making a variety of consumer items, such as rocking chair s, other furniture and even walking canes. See also Steam bending Types of tools Woodworking Category Woodworking tools Shipbuilding stub Tool stub Woodworking stub ... more details
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