Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay canopy with a red fringe on top, the Huber "steam traction engine" is a splendid relic of expansionist 19th- and early 20th-century America. It was steam ...

Some early steam cars worked well, and some did not. Some were fire pumpers that moved by themselves, and others were small locomotives with road wheels. Beginning in the 1880s, inventors tried very ...

"All the steam engines were scrapped in the 60s, maybe early 70s the last survived. "This particular one was presumed scrapped but about 10 years ago I got a message from somebody who said 'I’ve ...

To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam while ... two millennia early boggles the mind. And while we’ve seen far, far simpler versions of Hero’s Engine before, this one really ...

The governor valve is therefore operated by resistance which increases as the undue velocity of the engine increases, to cut offthe steam early when necessary. Measures have been taken to secure a ...

Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712. These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used ...