We’d love to see the same experiment done with a piston-type steam engine, too. Video after the break. Posted in Science Tagged hero's engine, liquid nitrogen, steam engine.

The motorcycle engine has come a long way from its auspicious 19th-century beginnings, evolving over the years to include many different types.

Condensation also pulls a fairly strong vacuum. At 100C, 1.3cc of steam condenses to about 1 cubic millimeter of water. Engines which use that kind of boost from a phase change are called ...

In this form it is claimed that a gain in work done by the combined air and steam engine was made of 42 ... when contrasted with that obtained from engines of standard types, actuated by steam, ...

(The steam turbine, a type of engine used in the Titanic and other steamships, wasn't developed until the late 1800s.) In this Hot Science, you have complete control of your own virtual, ...

What seemed to finalize the impact of the Watt engine on the Industrial Revolution was his creation of the double-acting engine. Doubling the efficiency, it condensed steam both above and below ...

Before internal combustion engines won over the automotive industry, they had to fight off rival forms of propulsion like early electric drive tech, and even grandfathered-in steam engines.This ...

Engine 2467 at The S.F Golden Gate Railroad Museum in the Hunters Point shipyard houses two of the remaining steam engines built with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement.of the 6,000 steam engines built ...

The result will be one of just six to eight steam engines still operational on mainline U.S. railroad tracks. The last steam locomotive delivered to Union Pacific, the “Living Legend” Northern ...