Sleeve Valve - Steam Engine

Steam Engine

Sleeve valves have occasionally been used on steam engines, for example the SR Leader class.

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Famous quotes containing the words steam and/or engine:

    Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.
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