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Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

1 rotary steam engine. These three modes of applying steam ... a living spirit ; " so said the old philosopher. This was the first steam enginea genuine rotaryand it ha^ frequently been imitated ...

Stockton and Darlington Railway 200 celebrations commence as Locomotion Number 1 has been returned to Hopetown, this week.

In fact, that's what SS originally stood for: "steamship." When the first steam engines arrived on the scene and started powering boats, maritime businesses like shipping companies couldn't tell ...

These two geniuses were the first to transfer heat energy into useable power using steam engines. Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas ...

A group of mostly volunteers are working to overhaul Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad's steam locomotive, the only ...

Think about how mind-shattering it would have been to see something like Hero’s Engine, the first known example of a steam turbine. To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam while ...

Unlike the trolley, the steam engine was an original part of the building, Kenney told NBC4. The machinery was used to pump ammonia to keep the brick structure cool when it functioned as an ice house.

Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ; and many powerful fire engines worked exclusively by ...

Cassie Newland visits a Mill in Burnley which was one of the first factories in World. Before this weaving was cottage industry but the steam engines developed by Newcomen and Watt drove the ...