Many of us have seen old steam engine models up for sale at garage sales and various ... which of course is powered by steam.

Automobiles have been around in some form for around 150 years. In that time, countless combustion engines have been produced ...

Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste ...

A. Walter I, the Steam Powered Giraffe robots still run off their original steam-powered engines and artificial intelligence. But you'll find no generic boilers or clockwork brains in these robots!

Steam trains were one of the most ... even the Big Boy's impressive 135,375 pound-force (lbf) of power isn't enough to make ...

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 ...

He was also the first to successfully run a steam-powered engine pulling carriages on rails at Pennydarren, South Wales, in 1804. Despite his engineering achievements, he died virtually penniless ...

The Stretham Old Engine is a steam-powered engine once used to fight floods in the area. The engine dates back to 1831, when it was built on the banks of the River Great Ouse at a cost of £4,950 ...

Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption, The Newcomen steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The engine was commonly found in coal ...