This machine for gourmandising is as purposeful as a steamship's engine room, with stone, wood, tile, copper and iron all used to the point.
John Robertson who built the engine for the steamship in 1811, was born in Neilston in 1782.
When Rudolf Diesel fell from the mail steamship Dresden into the North Sea in 1913, his engine design had not yet achieved its eventual success, and his company was out of cash.
Just this month, I've drooled over a big-name superstar at Powell's, caught a dozen local favorites at a literary bar crawl and watched a brilliant, unpublished poet read from the engine room of a rusty old steamship.
SS American was a steel-hulled, single propeller cargo ship built at Chester, Pennsylvania, by the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company and the Hawaiian sugar trade.
From the 1730s "engineer" in North American English was being used as a synonym for "engineman", she says, applied specifically to the driver or operator of a fire engine, then later to drivers of steamships and steam-powered locomotives.
Even before the advent of jet airliners, piston-engine transports had usurped traditional railway and steamship technology as the principal mode of transport for long-distance trips.
Queen Mary 2 is not a steamship like many of her predecessors, but is powered primarily by four diesel engines, with two additional gas turbines used when extra power is required; this integrated electric propulsion configuration is used to produce the power to drive her four electric propulsion pods as well as powering the ship's hotel services.
Coal mining became a major industry, and continued to grow into the 20th century, producing the fuel to heat homes, factories and drive steam engines locomotives and steamships.
The steamship Arabella sails on.
