Steam car

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are internal combustion engines (ICE).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Steam car”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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