Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.

The steam clipper was developed around this time, and had auxiliary steam engines which could be used in the absence of wind.

In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.

A navy now had the potential to destroy a superior enemy battle fleet using steam launches to drop torpedoes.

" She had bought him a steam yacht, houses in London and in the Leicestershire hunting country, and a Scottish grouse moor.

The canal had one major industrial legacy in the shape of Motala Verkstad-a factory established in Motala to produce the machines such as cranes and steam dredgers that were needed to build the canal.

It was the first time passenger traffic had been run on a steam locomotive railway.

He had previously agreed to take royalties of one third of the savings in coal from the older Newcomen steam engines.

The question of Russia's direction had been gaining steam ever since Peter the Great's program of Westernization.

These were developments that had begun before the Industrial Revolution, but the adoption of James Watt's more efficient steam engine from the 1770s reduced the fuel costs of engines, making mines more profitable.

Newcomen apparently conceived the Newcomen steam engine quite independently of Savery, but as the latter had taken out a very wide-ranging patent, Newcomen and his associates were obliged to come to an arrangement with him, marketing the engine until 1733 under a joint patent.

In close collaboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in perfecting his steam engine, which incorporated a series of radical improvements, notably the closing off of the upper part of the cylinder thereby making the low pressure steam drive the top of the piston instead of the atmosphere, use of a steam jacket and the celebrated separate steam condenser chamber.

However by 1783 the more economical Watt steam engine had been fully developed into a double-acting rotative type, which meant that it could be used to directly drive the rotary machinery of a factory or mill.

Watt began to experiment with steam though he had never seen an operating steam engine.

By the end of the 1960s – 1970s, most western countries had completely replaced steam locomotives in passenger service.

This experiment had a nozzle spraying a jet of steam at the spark discharge.

Interestingly, they found that the volcano-like experiment had produced the most organic molecules, 22 amino acids, 5 amines and many hydroxylated molecules, which could have been formed by hydroxyl radicals produced by the electrified steam.

Many motels began advertising on colorful neon signs that they had air cooling ( a early term for " air conditioning ") during the hot summers or were " heated by steam " during the cold winters.

They were also aware that, unlike steam and internal combustion engines, virtually no serious development work had been carried out on the Stirling engine for many years and asserted that modern materials and know-how should enable great improvements.

After a new steam engine had an accident ( cracked pipe weld ) his experiments were banned by the Austro-Hungarian police as dangerous.

One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.

Maggie had shaken himself awake and was licking the sand off his stubby whiskers and his long plume of a tail.

The harbour had two large basins, now almost choked with sand.

When he was accused of theft and taken before the judges, Zadig cleared himself by recounting the mental process which had allowed him to describe the two animals he had never seen: " I saw on the sand the tracks of an animal, and I easily

Long, shallow furrows imprinted on little rises in the sand between the tracks of the paws informed me that it was a bitch whose dugs were hanging down, and that therefore she had had puppies a few days before.

Unlike large limestone areas such as Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, or the Bahamas, which is a small island group composed of coral and sand, St. Lucia is a typical Windward Island formation of volcanic rock that came into existence long after much of the region had already been formed.

The eldest brother of these two birds, which was 1, 300 years old, then declared it had been informed by its father that the door was on the west side, but that it had become hidden by sand drifted by the wind.

The study revealed that illness was significantly associated with playing in the sand in a picnic area beside a stream where animals had access.

As a result, the area was so heavily deforested that the land deteriorated into barren sand dunes and the town had to be abandoned.

Early barbells had hollow globes that could be filled with sand or lead shot, but by the end of the century these were replaced by the plate-loading barbell commonly used today.

The geologists ultimately determined the precise beaches in Japan the sand had been taken from.

The forts situated to the north and east of Verdun ( e. g. Fort Douaumont, Fort Vaux, Moulainville ) had been thoroughly hardened during the early 1900s with very thick steel-reinforced concrete tops resting on a sand cushion.

By Hellenistic times, the city had moved to a new site south of what is now Bat Galim because the port's harbour had become blocked with sand.

Except for a few surviving tanks and a heavy weapons squad here or there, the assault troops had only their personal weapons, which, having been dragged through surf and sand, invariably needed cleaning before they could be used.

The eruption cloud disrupted air travel, occasionally closing airports and the central North Island airspace. Black sand like ash fell on surrounding farmland and stock had to be moved.

Similarly, he claimed that the anatase in the ink could have come from sand used to dry it ( the hypothetical source of the sand being gneiss from the Binnenthal area of Switzerland ) but his team had not examined the crystals microscopically, and Kenneth Towe responded that this was an essential test, given that crystal size and shape should clearly distinguish commercial anatase from anatase found in sand.

* Zilverstrand: Originally, it had only on outdoor lake with a white sand beach.

This village, like no other on Sylt, had to fight sand drift during the past centuries.

Supposedly the twenty domes were built instead of the twenty separate mosques which Sultan Bayezid I had promised for winning the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396.

) The mosques that were built after the conquest of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and influenced by the design of the 6th century Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia, had increasingly elevated and large central domes, which create a vertical emphasis that is intended to be more overwhelming ; in order to convey the divine power of Allah, the majesty of the Ottoman Sultan, and the governmental authority of the Ottoman State.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension in Christian art had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

The ceiling has saucer domes, which were to have been painted by Thornhill, had the Duchess not upset him.

An original tradition of using multiple domes was developed in the church architecture in Russia, which had adopted Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium.

The central dome over the crossing had pendentives and windows in its base, while the four domes over the arms of the cross had pendentives but no windows.

It had five domes, which are known from literary sources, but different arrangements for them have been proposed under at least four different plans.

In this period, domes were normally built to emphasize separate functional spaces, rather than as the modular ceiling units they had been earlier.

These domes were stronger, had a steeped angle, and could cover larger areas than the shallow cloister vaults.

The earliest stone churches in Russia featured Byzantine style domes, however by the Early Modern era the onion dome had become the predominant form in traditional Russian architecture.

The " first fully triangulated framed dome " was built in Berlin in 1863 by Johann Wilhelm Schwedler and, by the start of the 20th century, similarly triangulated frame domes had become fairly common.

As late as the 19th century, Islamic domes had been incorporated into Western architecture.

An important commission in terms of the client, were alterations to William Pitt the Younger's house at Holwood House in 1786, Soane had befriended William Pitt's uncle Thomas on his grand tour ; In ( 1787 ) Soane remodelled the interior of Fonthill Splendens ( later replaced by Fonthill Abbey ) for Thomas Beckford, adding a picture gallery lit by two domes and other work.

On the spot where Dimitry had been murdered the city in 1690 built a small Church of St. Demetrios on the Blood, which appears on the horizon with its red walls and blue domes as one sails north on the Volga.

In the 1st century AD, Nero's architects incorporated exedrae throughout the planning of his Domus Aurea, enriching the volumes of the party rooms, a part of what made Nero's palace so breathtakingly pretentious to traditional Romans, for no one had ever seen domes and exedrae in a dwelling before.

In 1983, many students at Maharishi International University were expelled for distributing literature for Carlson's meditation seminars, and others were suspended and had their " super-radiance cards ", needed for admission to the meditation domes, revoked.

The domes used in observatories had to be light in weight so that they could easily be rotated to position the telescope opening in any direction, and large enough so that it could cover the large refractor telescopes in use at the time.

( I came to a river whose banks had domes of hollowed pearl.

Some very early Supremes had wood interior domes like Panorama Elite however this was changed from wood surrounding the clock to having ABS mouldings in black.

By the 1920s, most of the Armenian quarter had “ European style gable roofs ” as opposed to the domes preferred in the Muslim quarter.

All known events have occurred at Mount Cleveland's summit vent, but there are at least five small andesite to dacite volcanic domes on the lower flanks. At times Cleveland has had a summit lava dome.