rotative
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They also create rotative engine discs by carving out large pieces of titanium and other metals.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
In fifth place, with 10% of the votes, was the Crossness Engine House, and the James Watt rotative beam engine.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2014
Watt had perfected, with the aid of Murdoch, both the pumping-engine and the rotative steam-engine for application to mills.
From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert H. Thurston
I have fixed my mind upon making from twelve to fifteen reciprocating engines and fifty rotative engines per annum.
From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie
The sun-and-planet arrangement, with gears of equal size, was adopted by Watt for nearly all the rotative engines that he built during the term of the "crank patents."
From Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt by Eugene S. Ferguson
