Locomotive

(noun.) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks.

(adj.) of or relating to locomotion .

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• The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The noise was released, the little locomotive with her clanking steel connecting-rod emerged on the highroad, clanking sharply. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The motor was located in the front part of the locomotive, on its side, with the armature shaft across the frames, or parallel with the driving axles. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In 1804, at Pen y Darran, South Wales, a third engine was built, which was the first steam locomotive ever to run on rails. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I believe that the engine driving the four Z generators at the power-house indicated as high as seventy horse-power at the time the locomotive was actually in service. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To stop the locomotive, the armature circuit was opened by the main switch, stopping the flow of current, and then brakes were applied by long levers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was the first commercially successful steamboat ever made, as George Stephenson's was the first commercially successful locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Fig. 104 is a type of the best modern express locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The 15th of September was the day appointed, and there were eight locomotive engines provided to propel the same number of trains of carriages, which were to form the procession. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• In the Hetton Railway, which ran for a part of its distance through rough country, he used stationary engines wherever he could not secure grades that would make locomotives practicable. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• While he was doing this Stephenson was patiently building new locomotives, and trying to induce the mine-owners along the Tyne to replace their horse-cars with his engines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The vessel then moves forward slowly until it is in the entrance chamber, when lines are thrown out on the other side and connections are made with towing locomotives on the side wall. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At the latter place we got three hundred prisoners, four guns, and destroyed nineteen locomotives and three hundred cars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The steam blast thrown into the smokestack by Hackworth, the tubular boiler of Seguin and the link motion of Stephenson were then, as they now are, the essential features of locomotives. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He also had the advantage of seeing other primitive locomotives that were being tried at different places near Newcastle. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• After Watt's system was devised, suggestions and experiments as to road locomotives and carriages were made, and other applications came thick and fast. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Stephenson had letters to Mr. Pease, and after a talk with him, persuaded him to go to the Killingworth Colliery and see his locomotives. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Its length was about eight miles, and five of Stephenson’s locomotives were working on it, under the direction of his brother Robert. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It is interesting to note that at this point the Grand Trunk now has its St. Clair tunnel, through which the trains are hauled under the river-bed by electric locomotives. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Fig. 83 shows the application of the injector to locomotives, which are now almost universally supplied with this device. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Others had built steam-engines that were almost successful as locomotives, but for one reason or another had never pushed their invention to that point where the world could actually use it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He has built electric locomotives and run them, he has made many discoveries in regard to platinum. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Our locomotives, fire engines, and torpedo boat engines would be of no value without it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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