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Steam-powered showman's engine from England. The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction engine.
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be transformed by a connecting rod and crank into rotational force for work.
Day of Defeat: Source is a team-based online first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve.Set in World War II, the game is a remake of Day of Defeat.It was updated from the GoldSrc engine used by its predecessor to the Source engine, and a remake of the game models.
This low steam turbine entry temperature (compared to a gas turbine) is why the Rankine (steam) cycle is often used as a bottoming [clarification needed] cycle to recover otherwise rejected heat in combined-cycle gas turbine power stations. The idea is that very hot combustion products are first expanded in a gas turbine, and then the exhaust ...
Few steam and diesel locomotives were in an operational mode, the exact numbers subject to conflicting information. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] There were also a number of railbuses (autoferros) in operation. At the point of liquidation the railway had 12 diesel-electric locomotives, 7 steam locomotives and 11 autoferro, not all operational.
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu (Vietnamese: Từ Sài Gòn tới Điện Biên Phủ) All quiet on the Saigon front or Saigon out of war (Chinese: 西貢無戰事) is a 1967 Vietnamese 35mm Eastmancolor film directed by Lê Mộng Hoàng.