In 1974, Evel Knievel tried to jump over the Snake River canyon in a steam-powered rocket.
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We saw this same thing happen in the 19th century with the invention of steam-powered ships.
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Mechanical looms, steam- powered locomotives, gasoline engines, electric motors ? none had an instant effect on productivity.
The Royal Navy could go faster, farther and fight more effectively than the steam-powered vessels of the Imperial German Navy.
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.
The wheezing, steam-powered devices that we used to have to load with coal before starting up would soon be the preserve of historians and cranks.
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The prospect of unmanned flight has been around depending on your definition since Archytas of Tarentum reputedly designed a steam-powered mechanical pigeon, in the fourth century B.
The 1998 traveling exhibit, "Art of the Motorcycle, " offered up a century of biking history, from a 1868 Michaux-Perreaux steam-powered machine to a Massimo Tamburini MV Agusta F4 racer.
In 1889 the Peugeots produced a three-wheeled, steam-powered car.
Similarly, solar thermal energy--which harnesses the heat of the sun to generate steam-powered turbines--consumes more than 2, 600 liters of water per megawatt hour, 200 liters more than coal-powered generation needs to produce the same energy.
Over the next three decades he dabbled in a variety of new technologies--electric storage batteries, steam- and gas-powered automobiles and a wireless telegraph--but after his death in 1911 the company focused again on temperature controls.
Visitors can watch the cider mill in action - this is the only such mill in the country still powered by steam - and then purchase alcoholic or non-alcoholic cider in plastic jugs.
For the stock market, with its steady rise since the start of 2012 and in January 2013, it should pick up more steam this year, powered by a buildup of basic optimism as opposed to a fear-based market attitude.
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