Savage, Michael Joseph
Savage, Michael Joseph (1872–1940) New Zealand statesman. Settling in New Zealand in 1907, he joined the Labour Party on its foundation, entering Parliament in 1919, and becoming deputy-leader in 1923. He took over as leader in 1933 on the death of Harry Holland, and became Prime Minister in 1935 after Labour's landslide victory. Savage is best remembered for his insistent advocacy of the Social Security Act and was one of the most popular of the country's political leaders.
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Steam's evolving engine.
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...water is turned into steam through the use of heat...the power for steam engines. And it was the correct...the steam-powered engine. The following inventors...an engine that used steam to push a piston that...rather than the high steam pressure required by...or ...
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James Watt's steam engine revolution
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail; 4/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...his investigations into the steam engine. Contrary to popular...lay in developing the steam engine into an effective form of power. Essentially a steam engine is a machine which uses steam...century the most common steam engine in England was Newcomen's...lit, ...
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James Watt's steam engine revolution.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 4/15/2006; 700+ words
; ...his investigations into the steam engine. Contrary to popular...lay in developing the steam engine into an effective form of power. Essentially a steam engine is a machine which uses steam...century the most common steam engine in England was Newcomen's...lit, ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Steam engines: Puffed up.(Thomas Newcomen actually invented the steam engine, although it was James Watt who harnessed it to power the industrial revolution)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/25/1999; 700+ words
; ...that he realised that steam pressure could be harnessed...millennium. The Watt steam engine and its successors powered...combustion and jet engines that move its machines...Kingdom Brunel, the steam engine went on to power the...internal-combustion engines devised by Rudolf ...
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Arcanum couple share interest in steam engines
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 7/2/2009; ; 644 words
; ...several 26,000-pound steam engines. The Arcanum man says his interest in steam engines began as a toddler...him with a model steam engine. When he was a child...evening spark show. Steam engine operators stoke...farmed with a steam engine until 1949. ...
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[ Kansas steam engines governed by stringent safety regulations ]
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Kansas steam engines governed by stringent...Capital-Journal Steam engine shows are a part of...certifying its inspectors and steam engine operators. "The state...hobbyists check their own engines, and it also is the...said. To operate an engine, he said, a person...
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No running out of steam engines
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 3/30/2002; ; 506 words
; ...Chinese culture - but steam engines in Tongchuan, a city...a hot spot for steam engine fans worldwide. In...are a large number of steam engine fans who enthusiastically seek old steam engines throughout the world...detail of these old steam engines, and we ...
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Steam trains: A blast from the past.(the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works is testing the world's most efficient steam locomotive, which was originally inspired by steam engine engineer )
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/19/1998; 700+ words
; ...godfather of the modern steam-engine movement is...performance of steam engines. He and his followers...and modernising old engines, and trying to rekindle...for steam power. The engine now being tested by...against two electric engines in a tug-of-war...testing is ...
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Rescuing Pieces of the Past ISSCS's steam engine was removed, will be restored
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 3/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Threshermen's group about the engines, but members of that group...transport and renovate the old engine. A threshermen's group removed...largest of the plant's three steam engines earlier this month and took...decided on the first steam engine based on the fact that when...
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Steam engines take center stage at show
Newspaper article from: Daily Record, The Wooster, OH; 7/21/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Organizers of the Doughty Valley Steam Days antique farm machinery...the Great Plains. Gasoline engines were common for small power...big jobs, only steam powered engines were up to the task. At the...himself how gasoline and steam engines helped people accomplish jobs...in industry. ...
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steam engine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
steam engine machine for converting...basis of all steam engines. Steam engines...single-cylinder steam engine the exhaust steam...compounded steam engine has several cylinders...solution. Earlier engines depended on atmospheric...
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Steam Engine
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...1729) improved the steam pump by reintroducing...built an engine that used steam at atmospheric pressure...to build. His piston engine was very reliable and...machine was called a beam engine because it had a huge...into all later steam engines. First, the entire machine was ...
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Steam Power and Engines
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
STEAM POWER AND ENGINES STEAM POWER AND ENGINES. The first useful steam engine was developed in England...Philadelphia; of the 165 engines in Massachusetts, 114 were in or around Boston. The steam engine had a profound effect on...
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steam-engines
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
steam-engines are machines employing steam...moving parts, and while engines on his principles were still...atmospheric cylinder/piston engine erected near Dudley in 1712...coal use: by the 1790s Watt engines consumed 70 per cent of the...
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steam‐engines
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
steam‐engines are machines employing steam...moving parts, and while engines on his principles were still...atmospheric cylinder/piston engine in 1712 established the...primary application, many engines running on unsaleable slack...
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