On the River Avon between Stratford-upon-Avon and Tewkesbury, a towpath was never provided, and bow-hauling continued until the 1860s, when steam tugs were introduced.

On modern pressure cookers, food residues blocking the steam vent or the liquid boiling dry would trigger additional safety devices.

On his first solo job erecting an engine at Wanlockhead Mine, Murdoch made the first of many improvements to the standard Boulton and Watt engine by rearranging the gears to enable the steam valve to be worked automatically by the action of the exhaust shaft.

On 2 July 1698 Savery patented an early steam engine, " A new invention for raiseing of water and occasioning motion to all sorts of mill work by the impellent force of fire, which will be of great use and advantage for drayning mines, serveing townes with water, and for the working of all sorts of mills where they have not the benefitt of water nor constant windes.

On the and gauges, the extra width allowed bigger inside cylinders and greater power, a problem solvable by using outside cylinders and higher steam pressure on standard gauge.

On April 12, 1862, the steam locomotive General was pursued from Atlanta and passed through Adairsville as its people witnessed the incident during the Great Locomotive Chase.

On October 4, 1851, the first steam locomotive entered South Bend.

On October 2, 1837, the first steam locomotive appeared, and the horses were, with minor exception, relegated to pasture.

On October 11, 1811, Stevens ' ship the Juliana, began to operate as a ferry between Manhattan and Hoboken, making it the world's first commercial steam ferry.

On the southern Broads, steam wherries were used.

On July 4, 1905, a racing steam car named " Whistling Billy " and driven by Webb Jay set a record of 73. 75 mph ( 118. 66 kph ) on the Morris Park Racecourse.

On 22 October 1867, Ictineo II made its first surface journey under steam power, averaging with a top speed of.

On early paddlers, the wheelhouse and side cabs were open largely due to the transition from sail to steam, and most ships at the time had open navigation bridges with the ferries being no different.

On the 5th September 1848 the first train steamed through Trowbridge as the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was established. The Kennet and Avon canal runs to the north of Trowbridge and played an instrumental part in the town's development as it enabled coal to be transported from the Somerset Coalfield and so marked the advent of steam powered manufacturing in the woollen cloth mills.

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On December 11, 2008, theme park officials announced that they would spend 40 million euros during the years 2009-2012 on three large construction projects: a convention centre accommodating 1500 visitors ( de Burcht ), an arena from the Middle Ages for 750 show spectators ( Raveleijn ), and a redesign for snack bar " De Likkebaerd " to turn it into a station for the park's steam train.

On steam engines this was usually a reciprocating steam pump, which was quite bulky.

On 30 April, Cervera set steam from Cape Verde, and panic gripped the U. S. populace, who did not know what his ships might do: attack the largely undefended East Coast while the fleet sailed about in an effort to engage him, prey upon American shipping, or perhaps sail up the Potomac and set fire to Washington, D. C.

On a two-year visit with his family to Scotland and England, starting June 1810, Lowell secretly studied the textile industries of Lancashire and Scotland, especially the spinning and weaving machines, operated by water power or steam power.

On playing the film back, Smith noticed the odd effect created by the steam puffs scooting across the screen and decided to reproduce it deliberately.

On August 26, 1883, the British warship Charles Ball sailing the Sunda Strait en-route to Hong Kong came within 20 km of the exploding Krakatau volcano and witnessed a great deal of static electricity in the atmosphere, generated by the movement of tiny particles of rocks and droplets of water from the volcano's steam, which caused spectacular brush discharges taking place from the masts and rigging of the ship.

On most days a green-liveried, two-car British Rail Class 101 DMU runs from Loughborough to Leicester as a shuttle train service ; this allows more time to light the steam locomotive ( s ) that would be running that day.

On 10 February 1804, a young engineer, Richard Trevithick, drove the world's first ever steam locomotive along a track at the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil.

On June 26, 2006, Roosevelt, again, made the cover of TIME magazine with the lead story, " The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt — The 20th Century Express ": " At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was the locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.

On August 5, 1914 there was a head-on collision between motorcar No. 103 of passenger train of the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad Company and locomotive No. 805, of a regular passenger train of the Kansas City Southern Railway Company, near Tipton Ford, a few miles north of Neosho.

On rack systems with extreme gradients, the boiler, cab and general superstructure of the locomotive are tilted forward relative to the wheels so that they are more or less horizontal when on the steeply graded track.

On a rack-only railroad locomotives always push their passenger cars for safety reasons since the locomotive is fitted with powerful brakes, often including hooks or clamps that grip the rack rail solidly.

On the strength of this, the L & M management did purchase the locomotive, subsequently reselling it at a loss to the Bolton & Leigh Railway where it worked until 1844.

On March 1, 1888, Jones switched to the I. C., firing a freight locomotive between Jackson, Tennessee, and Water Valley, Mississippi.

On withdrawal from service, it was overhauled and repainted at Swindon Works, and as such is a rare example of a locomotive untouched since overhaul by preservationists.

On a 1 % gradient ( 1 in 100 ) a locomotive can pull half ( or less ) of the load that it can pull on level track.

On a tank locomotive the fuel ( most often coal ) is carried in a bunker the location of which can vary.

On a locomotive with a trailing carrying axle or a trailing bogie the bunker is generally situated to the rear of the cab, but in cases where the firebox overhangs the rear driving axle, it has been common practice to situate the bunker on top of and to one side of the firebox ; this concentrates the weight and stabilises the locomotive.

On a mainline locomotive, the pilot has to successfully deflect an obstacle hit at speed ; the ideal is to push it upwards and sideways out of the way.

On Christmas Eve 1801, the Puffing Devil-a steam-powered road locomotive built by Camborne engineer Richard Trevithick-made its way up Camborne Hill in Cornwall .< ref >

On February 2, 2007, Michael Govan, with Koons, revealed plans for a-tall Koons sculpture featuring an operational 1940s locomotive suspended from a crane.

The more modern ship and quayside at the bottom of the seal was for the borough's docks. On the left of the seal was a picture of a steam locomotive, for the London and Blackwall Railway, and on the right a loom for the historic weaving industry.

The city's Latin motto was A posse ad esse ( From a Possibility to an Actuality ) featured on its coat of arms designed in 1900 by town officials, " On one side of the shield stands an Indian dressed in the paint and feathers of the early days ; on the other side is a French voyageur ; the center contains an elevator, a steamship and a locomotive, while the beaver surmounts the whole.

On the Southern Region they were normally hauled behind the locomotive.

On a separate note, the restored and running 2-6-2 steam locomotive at Fort Edmonton Park was built by Baldwin in 1919.

On 29 March 1955, French locomotive CC 7107 reached a speed of 331 km / h.