When it comes to the most powerful engines in modern-day, you wouldn't be alone if your mind immediately went to the highly ...

The present work consists of two ponderous volumes of some 800 pages each, and claims to be a comprehensive, accurate, and clearly written text-book, fully abreast of all the recent developments ...

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IN this, the third edition, Dr. Ewing has thoroughly revised his well-known text-book, and to some extent he has rewritten certain chapters; for example, the chapter on steam turbines is new, and ...

And you'd be right to – but well over a thousand years before that, shortly after 0 CE, Hero of Alexandria described a sort of steam engine, used for an unknown purpose.The device is a simple ...

The pictures feature in new book Steam Rally, which was published last month. One image shows a shirtless man stood atop an engine at Essex Steam rally in 1999.

The 1909 steam engines demonstrated were the J.I. Case ... and his wife wrote a book about the pioneer days centered around his grandmother Rosalie. Part of Gary Yaeger's antique collection.