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Steam Engine
Boiler
Engine
Steam
Steam Turbines
Alexander Nasmyth, creator of first reliable steam engine
James Watt, innovator who vastly improved the steam engine
Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat
see also Internal-Combustion Engine
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Internal-Combustion Engine
Internal-Combustion Engine, any type of machine that obtains mechanical energy directly from the expenditure of the chemical energy of fuel burned in...
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