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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three locomotives plunged into the flooded Kansas River when a railroad bridge collapsed nearly 70 years ago, on July 13, 1951, in Topeka. One of those steam engines is highlighted in a "ghost train" ...