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 ...

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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 ...

Vol. 2 consists of plates only. A later ed. of v. 2 only was published in 1845 with title: Illustrations of steam machinery and steam naval architecture. siris_sil_246041 ...

Just as Gottleib Daimler's Reitwagen revolutionised motorised transport, his first truck forever changed the way people ...