Real trains were a major mode of transportation for my parents. Many boys in my generation spent hours engaged with model ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

If engineering choices a hundred years ago had been only slightly different, we could have ended up in a world full of steam engines rather than internal combustion engines. For now, though ...

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 ...

A Bethlehem museum is adding world-renowned photographs to its list of collections. WDIY’s James Zipprodt reports.