steam whistle
Pressure-release alarm device
A steam whistle is a signaling device that produces a loud tone when pressurized steam is forced through it.
Used on locomotives, ships, and factories to announce arrivals, departures, or shift changes: The factory steam whistle blew at five o'clock.
The sound became iconic of industrial-age transportation and labor.
- boilerWater-heating vessel
- coal furnaceAppliance burning carbon fuel
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- valveFluid flow controller
- warningAlert about danger
factory · factory floor · mill town · pitch · maritime tradition · labor movements · shift change · time clock · smokestack · signal · industrial revolution · steamship · piston · ship · train station · toot · quitting time · punch out
- whistlesslide whistles, penny whistles, tin whistles
- trainstrains, train, locomotive, locomotives, electric locomotive
- loud soundsloud, scream, yell, thunderous, screaming
- steamsteamboat, steamship, locomotive, boiler, sauna
- train soundschoo-choo, chug, chugging, clickety-clack, clack
- heritage railwaysheritage railway, railway preservation, preservation society, railway museum, railroad museum
steam whistlesilence
Total lack of sound
visual signal · silent alarm · mute · flashing light · light signal
steam whistlewireless alert
Cordless signal or notice
GPS beacon · satellite signal · app notification · push notification