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What is a steam engine?

What is a steam engine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A piston engine driven by steam (as contrasted, for example, with a steam turbine).
  2. Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
  3. (Britain) A steam locomotive.
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They'd missed out on the steam engine and virtually every other scientific and industrial advance.
In November 1839, a steam engine manufactured by H. R. Dunham of New York City replaced teams of horses as the main source of motive power.
The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second.
The sails were removed in 1866 and the mill was then powered by a coal-fired steam engine.
Of course, multiple unit diesels with one engineer can do it, but it takes a lot of diesel horsepower to match the steam engine at speed.
The Lord Stewart is listed as having two boilers and a three-cylinder steam engine.

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