An antique JC Unis 1950 steam engine, once covered in rust and unable to function, is brought back to life in this full restoration. Upon testing, the engine didn’t work, revealing that the water tank ...

Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852. Fellow-citizens, pardon ...

Get ready to witness the awe-inspiring restoration of the legendary 1920’s live steam locomotive "BING," a marvel of ...

They will have much to learn, and their knowledge will cost them too dear. An attempt to excel, materially, the reciprocating engine, in point of economy, by substituting a rotary, is chimerical.

0 0 This article was originally published with the title “The Friction of Steam Engines” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 23 No. 1 (July 1870), p. 4 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07021870-4 ...

Damien Thomas, the British actor perhaps best known for his turn as the vampire Count Karnstein opposite Peter Cushing in the Hammer Films horror classic Twins of Evil, has died. He was 83. Thomas ...