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Traction engine   /trˈækʃən ˈɛndʒən/   Listen
Traction engine

noun
1.
Steam-powered locomotive for drawing heavy loads along surfaces other than tracks.





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"Traction engine" Quotes from Famous Books



... been made to connect the leading wheels of a traction engine with the driving wheels, so as to make drivers of all of them, and thus increase the tractive power of the engine, and to afford greater facilities for getting along soft ground or out of holes. The wheels with continuous ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various
... points of defense, and it has only been within a few years that a solution of the trouble has been found. The solution lay in the use of tractors, or the tractor principle, which every person familiar with farming and the "traction engine" ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller


Words linked to "Traction engine" :   locomotive engine, engine, locomotive, railway locomotive


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