steam power
Vapor-driven energy source
Steam power is energy generated by heating water to produce steam, which expands to drive mechanical devices like pistons or turbines.
This technology revolutionized industry and transportation during the 18th and 19th centuries, powering factories, locomotives, and ships before being largely supplanted by internal combustion engines and electricity.
The term now often evokes nostalgia for the industrial age or appears in steampunk aesthetics that reimagine Victorian-era machinery.
Railway pulling machine
- trainRail vehicle or instruct
- railwayTrack system for trains
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- iron horseSlang for steam engine
propulsion · boiler · piston · cylinder · firebox · tender · throttle · engineer
Industrial production facility
- millGrain-crushing facility
- ironworksIndustrial metalworking facility
- textile millFacility producing woven goods
- cotton millFiber-to-fabric factory
machinery · manufacturing · mass production · industrialization · spinning · loom · weaving · smelting
New device or method
- mechanizationConverting to machine operation
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- technologicalOf machines and systems
Stephenson · advancement · progress · transformation · modernization · automation · pioneering · engineering
locomotive
Railway pulling machine
iron horse · propulsion · boiler · piston · cylinder · firebox · tender · throttle · engineer · stoker
factory
Industrial production facility
- millGrain-crushing facility
- ironworksIndustrial metalworking facility
- textile millFacility producing woven goods
cotton mill · machinery · manufacturing · mass production · industrialization · spinning · loom · weaving · smelting · blast furnace
invention
New device or method
- mechanizationConverting to machine operation
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- breakthroughSudden important advance
Stephenson · technological · advancement · progress · transformation · modernization · automation · pioneering · engineering · prototype
- steam locomotivesboiler, firebox, iron horse, tender, iron horses
- Victorian ScienceDarwin, Darwinism, evolution, electricity, galvanism
- powerauthority, potency, energy, hydropower, horsepower
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- 1800sVictorian era, Napoleon, Gilded Age, Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution
steam powerelectric power
Energy from electrical current
human power · muscle power · nuclear power · solar power · hydroelectric power
steam powerdigital technology
Binary signal-based systems
information technology · computer age · nuclear age · space age · handcraft
steam powermanual labor
Work done bodily
hand labor · muscle power · hand tools · handicraft · brute force
power, steam, steaming, steamy, steamed, steamer, steamboat, steamroller, steamboats