steam-piston

His idea was to heat the Collegia with the waste hot water from his boiler, while using the steam-piston contrivances attached to it to drive a water pump bringing water up from wells, and to do other mechanical work needed at the complex.

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

His idea was to heat the Collegia with the waste hot water from his boiler, while using the steam-piston contrivances attached to it to drive a water pump bringing water up from wells, and to do other mechanical work needed at the complex.

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

The construction of the parts is as follows: A is the steam-piston, H 1 and H are the cylinder steam-passages; M is the cylinder exhaust port.

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

Hand-labor on the earth, and the harvest of it brought forth with singing: -- not steam-piston labor on the earth, and the harvest of it brought forth with steam-whistling.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

A sporting duke may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords, but the engineer sees, that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land, fills it with tenants; doubles, quadruples, centuples the duke's capital, and creates new measures and new necessities for the culture of his children.

English Traits (1856) 1856

The icebox is just as venerable as the steam-piston espresso machine, and was considerably more popular.

How Now Brownpau 2009