| 单词 | pneumatic engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspneumatic engine pneumatic engine n. now historical an air pump. ΚΠ 1663 Minute 4 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) i. 324 Mr. Boyle, [thanked] for his pneumatic-engine. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. i. 9 In a Glass-Receiver of the Pneumatick Engine. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 670 The application of Mr. Brown's pneumatic, or vacuum engine. 1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 179 With his new pneumatic engine, or air-pump..he made many researches on the spring or elater of air. 2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Features section) 15 He invented a weather clock, a pen for writing in the dark, a pneumatic engine, and a sign language for the deaf. < as lemmas |
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