A vast factory complex or machine that can fill up a building, a city or even a whole planet. Its purpose may not be readily apparent, probably due to the ...

The Enormous Engine trope as used in popular culture. One way to show off a vehicle, such as muscle cars, is by having some really big engines on it.

The use of Life Energy or a soul, usually of human origin, as a type of Applied Phlebotinum. That is, a functional component or fuel of a machine.

A game engine is basically just a library or module that handles 80% of the grunt-work in making a game: collision detection, that things can move, rendering ...

Siege engines are huge war machines used by attacking armies to help them win a siege, whether by destroying enemy fortifications, helping to bypass them, …

Engines of Creation is Fantasy Literature revolving on the lives of eight thousand small-town Canadians as they find themselves suddenly and irrevocably …

The Difference Engine is a 1990 alternate history novel written collaboratively by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk ...

The Chaos Engine (Soldiers of Fortune in the US) is a top-down shooter with RPG elements set in a steampunk setting, originally developed for the Amiga by …

The TV Tropes website runs on its own wiki engine software, an extremely modified version of PmWiki to the point where the PmWiki website lists that it "no ... History · Reception

A vast factory complex or machine that can fill up a building, a city or even a whole planet. Its purpose may not be readily apparent.