Visitors enter via a steam-engine Hogwarts Express train into Hogsmeade village.
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Mr Trevithick was the first to successfully run a steam-powered engine pulling carriages on rails at Pennydarren, South Wales, in 1804.
Trevithick was also the first to successfully run a steam-powered engine pulling carriages on rails at Pennydarren, South Wales, in 1804.
They travelled in coaches pulled by an 1898-built steam engine, known as Met Locomotive No 1.
Flemish enthusiasts at Steam Center Maldegem, a heritage center in northern Belgium, recently spent a cold day cutting spare boiler screws for their stable, which includes a Polish-built steam engine, the "General Maczek, " named for the Polish general who helped liberate Belgium in World War II.
They were joined on occasions by James Watt, the engineer who fine-tuned the steam engine, and Joseph Priestley, a burning radical who discovered oxygen.
Transformative inventions--the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, automobile, airplane, radio and television, computer and Internet and so on--require constant investment.
Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.
Not the interior secretary under Reagan, but the 18th-century Scot who got the idea for the first steam engine from his auntie's teakettle.
Since Game 3 they have regressed into their worrisome old selves, not the steam engine that wound down the regular season with a 13-game winning streak.
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Steps from the hotel's entrance is a petite train station from which chugs a steam engine taking you to nearby sleepy towns, one with a 14th-century abbey.
He was short and stocky, his nickname was The Little Steam Engine and yet, thanks to his blazing fastball and a mean pick-off move, he managed to win 364 games in his pro career.
Ford's first attempt at a genuine four-wheel vehicle, which he called the Quadricycle, used valves adapted from a steam engine and didn't have a reverse gear.
At 19 he went to London to study precision-instrument making, then worked for the University of Glasgow, where he devised his first major steam engine improvement: a separate, exterior condenser.
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