An immense amount of time and money has been expended upon new and ingenious cut-offs for steam engines. Each in its turn, as it was brought before the public, was supposed to excel its ...

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 ...

Model steam engines have intrigued hackers and makers for over 100 years. Many of us have seen old steam engine models up for sale at garage sales and various internet auction sites. The problem ...

fc propose a steam engine for driving the machinery of almost any factory. Neither a cotton nor woolen manufactory, it was believed, could be carried on but by the side of some river or creek ...

Before this weaving was cottage industry but the steam engines developed by Newcomen and Watt drove the industrial revolution forward. People were no longer the providers of energy and could now ...