• portable engine
  Portable engine
  A portable engine is a small steam engine, mounted on wheels or skids, which is used for driving machinery using a belt from its flywheel. It is not self-propelled and is towed to the work site by horses or bullocks, or even a traction engine. Portable engines were used mainly for driving...
  
  
• steam aircraft
  Steam aircraft
  Steam aircraft are aircraft that are propelled by steam engines. They were unusual devices because of the difficulty in producing a powerplant with a high enough power-to-weight ratio to be practical...
  
  
• (steam ball) aeolipile
  Aeolipile
  An aeolipile , also known as a Hero engine, is a rocket style jet engine which spins when heated. In the 1st century AD, Hero of Alexandria described the device, and many sources give him the credit for its invention.The aeolipile Hero described is considered to be the first recorded steam engine...
  
  
• (steam bath) sauna
  Sauna
  A sauna is a small room or house designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these and auxiliary facilities....
  
  
• steam brig
  Steam brig
  A steam brig is a two-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam power. The advantage was supposed to be that the ship could sail up-wind when it was convenient, and additionally, it could use the steam power to move relative to the wind to obtain a more advantageous angle to the wind.In practice,...
  
  
• steam bus
  Steam bus
  A steam bus is a bus powered by a steam engine. Early steam-powered vehicles designed for carrying passengers were more usually known as steam carriages, although this term was sometimes used to describe other early experimental vehicles too.-History:...
  
  
• steam cannon
  Steam cannon
  A steam cannon is a cannon that launches a projectile using only heat and water. The first steam cannon was designed by Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse. Leonardo da Vinci was also known to have designed one ....
  
  
• steam car
  Steam car
  A steam car is a light car powered by a steam engine.Steam locomotives, steam engines capable of propelling themselves along either road or rails, developed around one hundred years earlier than internal combustion engine cars although their weight restricted them to agricultural and heavy haulage...
  
  
• steam crane
  Steam crane
  A steam crane is a crane powered by a steam engine. It may be fixed or mobile and, if mobile, it may run on rail tracks, caterpillar tracks, road wheels, or be mounted on a barge...
  
  
• steam donkey
  Steam donkey
  Steam donkey, or donkey engine is the common nickname for a steam-powered winch, or logging engine widely used in past logging operations, though not limited to logging...
  
  
• steam dummy
  Steam dummy
  A steam dummy or dummy engine, in the United States of America and Canada, was a steam engine enclosed in a wooden box structure made to resemble a railroad passenger coach....
  
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• (steam electric power plant) fossil fuel power plant
  Fossil fuel power plant
  A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...
  
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• (steam electrolysis) high-temperature electrolysis
  High-temperature electrolysis
  High-temperature electrolysis is a method currently being investigated for the production of hydrogen from water with oxygen as a by-product.-Efficiency:...
  
  
• steam engine
  Steam engine
  A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separate from the combustion products. Non-combustion heat sources such as solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy may be...
  
  
• stationary steam engine
  Stationary steam engine
  Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation. They are distinct from locomotive engines used on railways, traction engines for heavy steam haulage on roads, steam cars , agricultural engines used for ploughing or...
  
  
• steam explosion
  Steam explosion
  A steam explosion is a violent boiling or flashing of water into steam, occurring when water is either superheated, rapidly heated by fine hot debris produced within it, or the interaction of molten metals A steam explosion (also called a littoral explosion, or fuel-coolant interaction, FCI) is a...
  
  
• steam fair
• steam generator
  Steam generator
  A steam generator is a device used to boil water to create steam. It may refer to:*Boiler , a closed vessel in which water is heated under pressure...
  
  
• Steam generator (nuclear power)
  Steam generator (nuclear power)
  Steam generators are heat exchangers used to convert water into steam from heat produced in a nuclear reactor core. They are used in pressurized water reactors between the primary and secondary coolant loops....
  
  
• steam hammer
  Steam hammer
  A steam hammer is a power-driven hammer used to shape forgings. It consists of a hammer-like piston located within a cylinder. The hammer is raised by the pressure of steam injected into the lower part of a cylinder and falls down with a force by removing the steam. Usually, the hammer is made to...
  
  
• steam locomotive
  Steam locomotive
  A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...
  
  
  • steam locomotive nomenclature
  • steam locomotive production
    Steam locomotive production
    - Early 20th Century :Early 20th Century locomotive production in the USA included units made for both domestic and export markets. Foreign market production increased significantly during and immediately after World War I...
    
    
  • steam locomotives of British Railways
    Steam locomotives of British Railways
    The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the "Big Four"....
    
    
  • Steam Locomotives of Ireland
    Steam locomotives of Ireland
    A wide variety of steam locomotives have been used on Ireland's railways. This page lists all those that have been used in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland...
    
    
• steam power during the Industrial Revolution
  Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
  During the Industrial Revolution, steam power began to replace water power and muscle power as the primary source of power in use in industry. Its first use was to pump water from mines...
  
  
• steam railroad
  Steam railroad
  Steam railroad is a term used in the United States to distinguish conventional heavy railroads from street railways, interurban streetcar lines, and other light railways usually dedicated primarily to passenger transport....
  
  
• steam reforming
  Steam reforming
  Fossil fuel reforming is a method of producing hydrogen or other useful products from fossil fuels such as natural gas. This is achieved in a processing device called a reformer which reacts steam at high temperature with the fossil fuel. The steam methane reformer is widely used in industry to...
  
  
• steam rupture
  Steam rupture
  A steam rupture occurs within a pressurized system of super critical water when the pressure exceeds the design plus safety margin specification...
  
  
• steam shovel
  Steam shovel
  A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil. It is the earliest type of power shovel or excavator. They played a major role in public works in the 19th and early 20th century, being key to the construction of railroads...
  
  
• (steam sterilizer) autoclave
  Autoclave
  An autoclave is an instrument used to sterilize equipment and supplies by subjecting them to high pressure saturated steam at 121 °C for around 15–20 minutes depending on the size of the load and the contents. It was invented by Charles Chamberland in 1879, although a precursor known as the...
  
  
• steam tank (vehicle)
  Steam tank (vehicle)
  The Steam Tank was an early U.S. tank design of 1918 imitating the design of the British Mark IV tank but powered by steam.The type was designed by an officer from the U.S. Army's Corps Of Engineers. The project was started by General John A...
  
  
• steam tractor
  Steam tractor
  A steam tractor is a vehicle powered by a steam engine which is used for pulling.In North America, the term steam tractor usually refers to a type of agricultural tractor powered by a steam engine, used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.In Great Britain, the term steam tractor...
  
  
• (steam train)–see steam locomotive
  Steam locomotive
  A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...
  
  
• steam tricycle
  Steam tricycle
  A steam tricycle is a steam-driven three-wheeled vehicle.-History:In the early days of motorised vehicle development, a number of experimenters built steam-powered vehicles with three wheels....
  
  
• steam turbine
  Steam turbine
  A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884....
  
  
• steam turbine locomotive
  Steam turbine locomotive
  A steam turbine locomotive is a steam locomotive which transmits steam power to the wheels via a steam turbine. Numerous attempts at this type of locomotive were made, mostly without success...
  
  
• steamboat
  Steamboat
  A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...
  
  
• steamroller
  Steamroller
  A steamroller is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for levelling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine...
  
  
• steam whistle
  Steam whistle
  A steam whistle is a device used to produce sound with the aid of live steam, which acts as a vibrating system .- Operation :...
  
  
• traction engine
  Traction engine
  A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin tractus, meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it...
  
  

See also

• List of environment topics