power-machine

Probably the modern dynamo is the most efficient, the most accurately measurable, the least wasteful of its power, and the most manageable, of any power-machine so far constructed by man for daily use.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

To do this we need only compare the present relationship between production and consumption in the economic sphere with what it was before the power-machine, and especially the electrically driven machine, had been invented.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

There exist those forces which resemble the potter's foot in producing mere numerically regulated movements (so that this part of the potter's activity can be replaced by a power-machine), and others, which like the potter's hand, strive for a certain end and so in the process create definite forms.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

She had worked in Zandler's shirtwaist factory -- bending over a power-machine, whose ten needles made forty-four hundred stitches

The Nine-Tenths James Oppenheim 1907

The invention of the plough very materially reduces this difference, and -- so far as the difference depends upon physical capacity -- the invention of the power-machine reduces it almost to _nil_.

Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884