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What is a steam engine?

What is a steam engine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A piston engine driven by steam (as contrasted, for example, with a steam turbine).
  2. Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
  3. (Britain) A steam locomotive.
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Keep in mind that in those days, to be in the cab of a working mainline steam engine had to be on a par with a ride in a jet fighter today.
In November 1839, a steam engine manufactured by H. R. Dunham of New York City replaced teams of horses as the main source of motive power.
The steam engine with six bogies arrived from Shornur, through a metre-gauge track.
She ran on a 700-horsepower steam engine and had four jury masts on which four trysails and a jib could be set for emergencies.
They'd missed out on the steam engine and virtually every other scientific and industrial advance.
The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second.

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