When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny sup… ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Improvements in the Steam Engine ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 23 (June 1869), p. 361 doi:10.1038 ...

Even before steam became speedy, a steam-powered engine designed by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot drove the first self-propelled vehicle in 1769. But it had to rest every 15 minutes to generate enough steam ...

Though advanced steam technology has impacted many industries, the one that it affected the most was railways. Several modern locomotives that ran on steam engines kept getting better with time ...

THIS treatise is intended as an elementary text-book for technical students. In many respects it fulfils its purpose, at least better than any book of moderate size with which we are acquainted.

The first steam engine produced by the J.I. Case Company in 1869, "Old Number One," produced eight horsepower and was used primarily to run threshing machines and sawmills. Its boiler produced 80 ...

The most powerful steam locomotive is indeed an impressive engine, whose massive build offered output to match. It has a 2-10-10-2 wheel layout, and has 48-inch low pressure cylinders hanging on ...