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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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Her single steel screw propeller was powered by a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine and developed 162 hp.
The Lord Stewart is listed as having two boilers and a three-cylinder steam engine.
The steam engine with six bogies arrived from Shornur, through a metre-gauge track.
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.
They'd missed out on the steam engine and virtually every other scientific and industrial advance.
Keep in mind that in those days, to be in the cab of a working mainline steam engine had to be on a par with a ride in a jet fighter today.

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