The motorcycle engine has come a long way from its auspicious 19th-century beginnings, evolving over the years to include ...

Here are some of the notable products ... steam locomotive models in its lineup in the early 60s. Pacific Fast Mail was less than 10 years old when this ad ran in February 1961. It imported brass ...

By contrast, the steam engines that preceded the internal combustion ... As it did, the sphere revolved on its axis. This was one very early, very small-scale example of the power of steam ...

Beginning in the 1770s, many people tried to make cars that would run on steam. Some early steam cars worked well ... Why do most cars today run on gasoline? The gasoline engine has been reliable, ...

Think about how mind-shattering it would have been to see something like Hero’s Engine, the first known example of a steam turbine ... revolution two millennia early boggles the mind.

Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712. These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used ...