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The first Industrial Revolution was largely powered by this odorless gas with which Robert Fulton gained fame |
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YOU SAY YOU WANT AN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION |
2024-06-27 |
#9134 |
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For nearly half a century, "Puffing Billy", an early locomotive powered by this, hauled loads from an English coal mine |
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THE 1800s |
2022-06-22 |
#8668 |
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How punk--considered the first computer, Charles Babbage's 19th century Analytical Enginewas designed to be powered by this |
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COMPUTER HISTORY |
2021-11-05 |
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In 1819 the Independence became the first vessel powered by this type of engine to travel the Missouri River |
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MISSOURI HISTORY |
2019-03-18 |
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(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) In 1901, 17-year-old Carl Breer attached a boiler & a crankshaft to a chassis to make an engine powered by this, which briefly challenged the combustion engine for supremacy |
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HISTORY OF CARS |
2013-12-25 |
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The first practical machine powered by this was used in 1698 to pump water out of mines |
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17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY |
1996-01-23 |
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