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  • Raising Steam is the 40th Discworld novel, written by Terry Pratchett. It was the penultimate one, published before his death in 2015. Originally due...
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    steam-electric. Natural gas is frequently combusted in gas turbines as well as boilers. The waste heat from a gas turbine can be used to raise steam,...
    11 KB (1,381 words) - 18:23, 8 April 2024
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    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...
    78 KB (9,740 words) - 06:41, 13 July 2024
  • Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide...
    293 KB (25,959 words) - 12:45, 26 July 2024
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    can be used to raise steam by passing this gas through a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The steam is then used to drive a steam turbine in a combined...
    45 KB (6,095 words) - 21:43, 22 July 2024
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    A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.: 80  It is fuelled by...
    145 KB (17,861 words) - 18:55, 29 July 2024
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    Roman Egypt. Several steam-powered devices were later experimented with or proposed, such as Taqi al-Din's steam jack, a steam turbine in 16th-century...
    54 KB (6,832 words) - 05:58, 19 June 2024
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    Coal (redirect from Steam coal)
    as fuel in steam-electric power generation and to make coke. Known as steam coal in the UK, and historically used to raise steam in steam locomotives...
    122 KB (12,094 words) - 14:33, 29 July 2024
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    the energy from the reactor. The heat from nuclear fission is used to raise steam, which runs through turbines, which in turn power the electrical generators...
    57 KB (6,313 words) - 12:14, 13 July 2024
  • third book, Raising Steam, Vetinari directs Lipwig to oversee the development of a railway network for Dick Simnel's newly invented steam locomotive....
    86 KB (7,954 words) - 10:22, 26 July 2024
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    It had a 30 inches (0.76 m) diameter boiler which took 20 minutes to raise steam. Top speed was 28 mph (45 km/h). Baldwin struggled to survive the Panic...
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    Flash boiler (redirect from Flash steam)
    boilers are lighter and less bulky than other types and take less time to raise steam from a cold start. However, they are more prone to overheating because...
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  • Lipwig is the protagonist of the novels Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam. Pratchett does not provide an extensive backstory for von Lipwig, born...
    11 KB (1,452 words) - 09:56, 26 July 2024
  • abnormal pressure. The exhaust from the mercury turbine is used to raise steam for the steam turbine. The Hartford Electric Light Co. (U.S.A.) has a 10,000kW...
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    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...
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    Steamboat (redirect from Steam boat)
    A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation...
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    Steampunk (redirect from Steam punk)
    industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American "Wild West", where steam power...
    147 KB (14,275 words) - 15:24, 14 July 2024
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    prepared for war, with 28 battleships of the Home Fleet being ordered to raise steam and prepare for action, while British cruiser squadrons shadowed the...
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    the steam age, it was convenient to use horses in station yards to shunt wagons from one place to another. Horses do not need lengthy times to raise steam...
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    surgery. Although she had been extensively damaged, Warspite could still raise steam and was ordered back to Rosyth during the evening of 31 May by Rear-Admiral...
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