Cincinnati’s wonderful Fire Museum on Court Street continually burnishes our city’s two fire-fighting claims to fame: Cincinnati created the first professional fire department in the United States in ...

The evolution of the steam engine is among the milestones in the history of technology, transforming transport, industry, and society. While steam engines and pumps existed from the late 17th century, ...

Long before the Industrial Revolution, one man in ancient Greece was building machines that shouldn’t have been possible. He ...

Steam is among the most common phenomena on Earth—boil water, and it appears. Wrangling it into engines was among the most significant developments in human history, not to mention fashion. For it's ...

The first artifact installed at the National Museum of Industrial History is only now ready to show visitors its potential. It's been a lengthy road for the 115-ton Corliss steam engine, begun with ...

Richard Trevithick did not own slaves. He was a barely literate engineer, born toward the end of the 18th century, who grappled with—and ultimately solved—the question of how to improve the steam ...

ALAMOSA, Colo. — Engine 169 is “the little engine that could.” Ruth Heide, Valley Courier via AP In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, photograph, Jim Poston, a member of the Locomotive 169/Business Car B-1 ...