steam-hammer

My arm is strong compared to an infant's but weak compared to a steam-hammer.

Two contrary positions Adam Roberts Project 2006

My arm is strong compared to an infant's but weak compared to a steam-hammer.

Archive 2006-12-01 Adam Roberts Project 2006

They went and stood behind the puddlers for a little while, and then through the rolling-mills, where amidst an incessant din the deliberate steam-hammer beat the juice out of the succulent iron, and black, half-naked Titans rushed the plastic bars, like hot sealing-wax, between the wheels.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

Knives stung me and blackjacks smashed against me, but I laughed and drove my iron fists in straight, steam-hammer smashes that shattered flesh and bone.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

Again his fist descended upon the table in a way that reminded one of the steam-hammer cracking a nut.

New Grub Street 2003

Her face looked like it had built-in air-conditioning, and she wore a blue trouser suit that an industrial steam-hammer couldn't put a crease in.

Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998

The modern hog is to his progenitor as the man with the steam-hammer to the man with the stone-hammer, -- infinitely more useful, though not so free.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

There was a box of soap, a bag filled with squares of beet-sugar, a tiny hammer made in the shape of the giant steam-hammer "Wrath" at Motala, a package of paper made at one of the great paper-mills, lace collars, a lace cap and some beautiful handkerchiefs from Vadstena.

Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald

At every stage of their work the iron-makers depended on coal; and the great inventions in the iron and steel industry are land-marks in the expansion of the demand for coal -- Cort's puddling process 1783, Watt's steam-engine 1785, Neilson's hot blast 1824, Naysmith's steam-hammer 1835, Bessemer's steel-converter

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

The steam-hammer that bears his name, which means a ponderous and powerful machine in which the hammer is lifted by the direct action of steam in a piston, the lower end of whose rod is the hammer-head, has done more for the development of the iron industry than any other mechanical invention.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele