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atmospheric engine
noun
- an early form of single-acting engine in which the power stroke is provided by atmospheric pressure acting upon a piston in an exhausted cylinder.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of atmospheric engine1
First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences
The cylinder was let down into the top of the boiler, and like Newcomen's atmospheric engine had no cylinder cover.
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This Piston T S, acts only one way, like that of an atmospheric engine, a thing now quite out of date!
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The essential features of the atmospheric engine were not new.
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This is the extent as far as I know of Savory's claim to be the inventor of the atmospheric engine.
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On the other hand, the atmospheric engine was limited in its power only by the dimensions of its piston.
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