The engineer was blown 142 feet. Despite such accidents, by 1900 some 5,000 large steam traction engines a year were being made. But the steady improvement of internal-combustion engines ...

A large quantity of heat is lost by radiation ... yj the last great improvement m the steam engine. Since his time the boiler has been changed, tubular boilers have been introduced, and the ...

We had no idea that what’s needed to convert an internal combustion engine to steam power is actually rather trivial. [David Nash] shows us how it’s done by performing the alterations on the ...

To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam while flames ... penetrating the lid of a large kettle. [Make It Extreme] took great pains to make the engine safe, with relief valves ...

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 ...