Assertion: steam engine's piston | /r/CapableOf | push beam
Facets:
value: of turning a wheel
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Instead of turning a wheel, the piston pushed a beam up and down in a simple back-and-forth or reciprocating motion.
text: When the piston pulled the beam, the other side of the beam was pulled upward.
text: The innovations that can be seen in the Whitbread engine are: the separate condenser, where steam is condensed (cooled to form water) without cooling the working cylinder; the parallel motion mechanism, which allowed the piston to push the beam up as well as pulling it down; the sun and planet gear, which translates the up-and-down motion of the beam into rotary motion; and the centrifugal governor, which reduces steam supply if the engine begins to run too fast.