engine-rooms

Ignore sudden steam leaks, you're in a movie, in movie engine-rooms there are always steam leaks.

50 Things That Only Ever Happen in the Movies The Nag 2009

Besides formal political structures, the engine-rooms of our economic revival are bodies which bring together employers, government, labour and other role-players.

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT WASEDA UNIVERSITY 1995

Besides formal political structures, the engine-rooms of our economic revival are bodies which bring together employers, government, labour and other role-players.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Rather than waste three hundred and fifty hours of precious time, each captain turned his ship over to his exec. and remained aboard the Nemesis; even on so spacious a craft the officers 'country north of the engine-rooms was crowded like a tourist hotel in mid-season.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

In the late war with Spain the ships that dealt the decisive blows at Manila and Santiago had been launched from two to fourteen years, and they were able to do as they did because the men in the conning towers, the gun turrets, and the engine-rooms had through long years of practice at sea learned how to do their duty.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

The motors were of an improved type, giving an aggregate output of 900 horse-power, and were divided into four separate units, housed in two engine-rooms, the front car being a replica in every detail of the navigating bridge of a warship.

Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Before dawn both boys were called to go into the engine-rooms with their shift.

Shelled by an Unseen Foe James Fiske

The inner cylinder is so arranged that it remains stationary, and in this are the cabins, staterooms, and engine-rooms.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

The engine-rooms were stifling, notwithstanding the big electric fans that supplied a change of air as it entered through the great air intakes.

Shelled by an Unseen Foe James Fiske

All would be charmed with towage by steam, if done with economy, dispatch, regularity and safety; but quite another feeling prevails under the suggestions of changing drivers for engineers, stables for engine-rooms, horses for machinery, and light cargos for full ones, as in case of converting the horse-boat to a steamer.

History of Steam on the Erie Canal Anonymous