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beam engine

(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end

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M'-Naught			It pumped drinking water from Kew to west London until 1944, when all five steam engines, the Bull and four beam engines, were decommissioned. Steam team's ebullience brings industrial relic back to life by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk Eastney Beam Engine House Industrial Archaeology: This museum contains a pair of magnificent James Watt beam engines, stationed in their original high Victorian engine house of 1887. Portsmouth City Guide, Including Hotels by Ms Maria Williams / Travel, recreation and leisure community NMES has two very old beam engines in working condition at its museum at Chorley Old Road, Bolton. History that just went up in steam by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)			beady-eyed beagle Beaglehole beagling beak beaked beaked hazelnut beaked parsley beaked salmon beaked whale beaker Beaker folk Beakhead Beakiron beakless beaklike beaky-nosed Beal Beale beam beam aerial beam balance Beam center beam compass beam engine beam engines beam hole beam of light beam rider beam riding beam scale beam splitter Beam tree beam width beam-ends Beambird Beamed beamer Beamful Beamily Beaminess beaming Beamingly beamish Beamless Beamlet beamy Bean bean aphid Bean aphis bean ball			beam clamp beam clamp beam clamp beam clamp beam clip beam collimation Beam column Beam compass Beam compass beam compasses beam compasses Beam Congruency System Beam Correction Factor beam coupling beam current Beam Current Monitor beam cutoff angle Beam diameter Beam diameter Beam divergence beam down beam down beam down beam down beam drop beam edge beam efficiency Beam emittance beam encasement Beam engine beam engines Beam Equivalent Pressure beam expander Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket beam extractor beam fill beam filling beam form Beam Former beam forming Beam Forming Electrode Beam Frequency Network Beam Gas Path Length Beam Global Wine & Spirits beam hanger beam hardening beam holding beam hole beam hole Beam Imaging System Beam Induced Light Emission beam infilling Beam Injection Assessment of Defects in Semiconductors Beam Injection Assessment of Microstructures in Semiconductors beam iron beam lead

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beam engine (redirected from beam engines)

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