condensing-engine

They are terraced down the sides – steps by which the retreating water can be followed – but happily the place is independent of them now – with a condensing-engine and the inexhaustible supply of the sea ....

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

He had worked at the improvement of his locomotive for some fifteen years before achieving his decisive victory at Rainhill; and Watt was engaged for some thirty years upon the condensing-engine before he brought it to perfection.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

Stephenson and his son, in the form of the railway locomotive, by which social changes of immense importance have been brought about, of even greater consequence, considered in their results on human progress and civilization, than the condensing-engine of Watt.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

a complete form the best points in the separate plans of others, embodying with them such original inventions and adaptations of his own as to entitle him to the merit of inventing the working locomotive, in the same manner as James Watt is to be regarded as the inventor of the working condensing-engine.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858