A 40-acre field in Canandaigua was transformed into a mecca of wheels, whistles and water vapor as the New York Steam Engine Association Pageant of Steam chugged along Thursday. Steam engine and ...

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JOHN DECKER, Esq., Chief Engineer of the New-York Fire Department: DEAR SIR: We understand you have sent for the steam fire-engine known as the "Experiment." Said engine is retained by us until we ...

Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic ... of technological change,” he writes. The steam engine did not come about because of breakthroughs in the science of thermodynamics, he notes ...

WILLMAR -- A piece of history chugged into town Saturday with a visit by the Milwaukee Road No. 261, a steam locomotive restored to the heyday of the steam-powered train. Milwaukee Road No. 261 ...

Once, steam engines powered everything from trains to farm machinery or even road vehicles. But, as technology scampered ahead with the passage of time, they became the preserve of eccentric ...

I said that I was waiting for a steam train. Liz looked at me as if I were crazy. “Uncle Oliver,” she said. “There haven’t been steam trains for more than forty years.” I have not ...

Archeologists have discovered a train graveyard off the coast of New Jersey, where two rare locomotives from the 1850s lay preserved under 90 feet of water. It remains a mystery how the two steam ...

The train's two steam locomotive engines will leave the zoo; they've been sold to the Riverside & Great Northern Preservation Society in Wisconsin Dells. The No. 1916 engine is leaving the zoo ...

These two geniuses were the first to transfer heat energy into useable power using steam engines. Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas ...