Pantograph - The Rainhill Trials

Chorus

Pressure climbs high in the cylinder walls

Steel snakes out across the moors

Piston stroke timing defines the age

Heat is the master of force

Heat is the master of force

Verse 1

Liverpool marks the starting line

Novelty falls behind while Sans Pareil suffers a catastrophic burst

Five locomotives arrived for the Rainhill Trials to prove their worth

Rocket won by showing no leaking joints

Stephenson saw the grade

Conquering the uphill fight with a multi-tubular boiler

Gravity gave way to the traction of steam and the iron path

Chorus

Pressure climbs high in the cylinder walls

Steel snakes out across the moors

Piston stroke timing defines the age

Heat is the master of force

Heat is the master of force

Verse 2

Rudolf Rudolf Rudolf built a compression ignition cycle to bypass the spark

Adiabatic heating occurs when the plunger descends

Vaporized fuel meets a thermal wall

Voltage flows from the rotating field of a massive copper coil

Reaction turbines spin faster than any oscillating arm ever could

Alternating current killed the reach of the narrow belt

Efficiency found in the spiral blades

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

Look at the grid today

Coal fires still boil the lake for the massive generator heads

Nucleus splits to provide the same saturated heat

Every screen glows from a pressure relief valve

Built on the backbone of coal

Fed by the steam

Kept by the steam

Nothing has truly changed in the deep geometric architecture of power