steam box

A steam-chest. steam-brake, s. Rail. Eng .: A device for bringing the power of steam under pre ure to act upon the carriage wheels and stop their motion. steam-buzzer, subst . A form of steam-whistle (q. v.) used in manufacturing districts as a signal for commencing and leaving off work. ( Eng .) "Nothing at all approaching the steam - buzzer , which is still to be found in some manufacturing neigh borhoods, was known to our happy forefathers. steam-buzzer is a peculiarly ingenious combination of the fog-horn, a threshing-machine, and a locomotive boiler on the point of bursting. bursting. When this device 'goes off' at six o'clock in the morning, with the object of summoning workpeople to their daily toil, it is universally recognized in its vicinity that the time for sleep has pa ed."-London Daily Telegraph.