Model steam engines have intrigued hackers and makers for over 100 years. Many of us have seen old steam engine models up for sale at garage sales and various internet auction sites. The problem ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

The heated body of air expands, becoming wind. We know this is an “engine”—a device capable of doing work—because high winds uproot trees and blew Dorothy and Toto to Oz. In the steam engine—which had ...

An immense amount of time and money has been expended upon new and ingenious cut-offs for steam engines. Each in its turn, as it was brought before the public, was supposed to excel its ...

The Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London has the largest working Cornish Steam Engine in the World. It was actually built for the site to pump water to West London and started work on the 30th May 1846.

Willian Murdoch was the inventor of Gas Lighting but also worked in Cornwall with James Watt (Boulton and Watt) on steam engines but left there in the late 1790's and returned to Scotland.

Efforts are picking up steam to try to restore the locomotive at Stormont Vail Events Center, move it elsewhere in Topeka and ...

Luther R. Taught, of Macon, Georgia, has invented a very ingenious and original improvement for regulating the speed of steam engines, by cutting off the steam in the steam box when it exceeds the ...