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 ...

Navy Steam Engineering. Share full article. Jan. 3, 1864. ... Postulate: If a steam-engine does work, an amount of heat is abstracted from the steam, equivalent to the work done, ...

Greek engineer Hero of Alexandria designs the first steam engine; it has a pedestal, an altar, and a rotating ball—but no practical use. 2 Mid-1670s: Denis Papin's Steam Cooker.

Pioneers like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt created ever-improving steam engines.  Over time, horses fell by the wayside as people took to this new mode of transportation. Railroads began ...

To obtain a thorough insight into the movements of slide-valves, and to completely understand the distribution of steam, is generally a difficult matter to first-year students and engineering ...

Steam engines, believe it or not, have been around for over 300 years. In England in 1698, Thomas Savery patented the first working steam engine—this was a simple machine that utilized the ...

1924 Doble steam car at the Henry Ford Museum NAParish via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) In 1917, visitors to the National Automobile Show in New York City had a clear favorite among the nearly 100 new ...