Steam Engines
Across
- 3. The boiler on this crowded steamboat exploded in 1865.
- 4. This person improved Newcomen's engine in the 1760s.
- 5. Energy that can be used to do work.
- 6. This person built the steam engine in 1712.
- 9. Becomes larger in size, amount, or volume.
- 12. This person built a high pressure steam engine in England in the early 1800s.
- 15. This person built the first money-making river steamboat in 1807.
- 16. This appliance requires 560 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.
- 17. A large tank used to store heated water.
Down
- 1. To blow up or burst with a sudden release of energy.
- 2. A type of machine with moving parts that uses steam power to create motion.
- 7. Vehicles that act as large engines to pull or push railroad cars along tracks.
- 8. This appliance requires 256 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.
- 10. This appliance requires 3,375 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.
- 11. Relating to a heavy petroleum product used as fuel in large vehicles such as trucks and buses.
- 13. A new device or process.
- 14. Physical force placed on an object.
- 18. This appliance requires 4,380 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.