Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.

* Construction: Steam roller, steam shovel

* February 24 – William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.

In 1911, 80 % of the nation's steam shovel and heavy duty earth moving equipment was manufactured in Marion, Ohio.

Meccano model of a Steam shovel | steam shovel excavator powered by a restored 1929 Meccano steam engine.

William Otis ( 1813 – 1839 ) was an American inventor of the steam shovel.

In 1839, William Smith Otis, civil engineer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was issued a US patent for the steam shovel ( No. 1, 089 ) for excavating and ( removing earth ).

There were reports that the health-care workers could not tend the sick nor the gravediggers bury the dead because they too were ill. Mass graves were dug by steam shovel and bodies buried without coffins in many places.

In the States the machine tradition became so strong that [...] the word navvy is understood to mean not a man but a steam shovel.

Erickson commenced the big project in turning on his big steam shovel in celebration of the Oct. 27, 1909, post AYP Exposition era, in the final push to complete the Lake Washington Canal project.

* February 24-William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.

such as a steam shovel, a winch and a truck used for transport of ore.

In 1922 they manufactured their first continuous-track steam shovel.

As the Martian passes a construction site, he spots a steam shovel at work.

Assuming this is the monster everybody's talking about, he whips out an ACME Atom Rearranger and shoots the steam shovel, turning it into a dragon that licks the construction worker and waddles off.

A derelict steam shovel in Alaska ; major components visible include boiler, water tank, winch, main engine, boom, dipper stick, crowd engine, wheels and bucket

A Marion steam shovel excavating the Panama Canal in 1908.

A steam shovel excavating for the San Diego and Arizona Railway line, circa 1919.

A Link-Belt steam shovel crane, circa 1890.

The world's largest steam shovel surviving intact is a 1906-built Marion machine, located in the small American town of Le Roy, New York.

This steam shovel is the last operational Bucyrus Model 50-B, and is preserved at the Nederland Mining Museum.

Conventional energy for processing foods is available in the range of at most a few cents per kwhr for electric power and the equivalent of a few mills per kwhr for process steam.

The machine is equipped with a pipe for injecting live steam that is capable of raising the temperature of water at an eight-inch level from 110-degrees to 140-degrees-F ( 38*0 to 60*0C. ) in less than two minutes.

When this water level has been reached, inject steam until the temperature is that shown in Column Aj.

When this water level has been reached inject steam until the temperature is that shown in Column Aj.

We've got rid of the steam yachts and Georgian houses, and the bloated, too-expensive automobile is next.

It is noted that most of the engines run on steam, and that an even larger one is under construction at the British Capital in Delhi.

The steam cracking of alkanes affords a few percent acetylene, which is selectively hydrogenated in the presence of a palladium / silver catalyst.

The unit is most often used in the power, steam generation, heating and air conditioning industries.

In industrial fired heaters, power station steam generators, and large gas-fired turbines, the more common way of expressing the usage of more than the stoichiometric combustion air is percent excess combustion air.

The term is meant to evoke the image of a nineteenth century factory, powered by steam, pushing gears and rods, noisy and clamorous.

* Compound engine, a steam engine in which steam is expanded through a series of two or three cylinders before exhaust.

A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high-pressure casing and a low-pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam.

The steam is partially expanded in the high-pressure casing, then exhausted to the low-pressure casing.

This is the last time that Norfolk and Western 611 is under steam.

The steam ejector is a popular form of diffusion pump for vacuum distillation and freeze-drying.

Like vacuum distillation, steam distillation is a method for distilling compounds which are heat-sensitive.

The temperature of the steam is easier to control than the surface of a heating element, and allows a high rate of heat transfer without heating at a very high temperature.

An 18th-century working Newcomen steam engine is on display in the town.

A drawing for a booster engine for steam locomotive s. Engineering is applied to design, with emphasis on function and the utilization of mathematics and science.

A simple example from the physical world is the heating of water: a one degree increase in temperature is a quantitative change, but between water of 100 degrees and steam of 100 degrees ( the effect latent heat ) there is a qualitative change.