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Sun and planet gear
Type of gear used in early beam engines
gravity battery
type of energy store, stores energy in the form of potential energy by changing the height of a large mass using gravity.
box girder
type of girder
tree shelter
shelter used to nurture trees
Fairlie locomotive
steam locomotive prototype
sailing canoe
sailing by fitting a sail to a canoe
Hot blast
preheating of air blown into a blast furnace
Cold-formed steel
steel products shaped by cold-working processes
Parallel motion
mechanical engineering
roller printing
method of textile printing
SeaGen
SeaGen was the world's first large scale commercial tidal stream generator.
Scotch gauge
Scottish railway track width