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 ...

An immense amount of time and money has been expended upon new and ingenious cut-offs for steam engines. Each in its turn, as it was brought before the public, was supposed to excel its ...

The Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London has the largest working Cornish Steam Engine in the World. It was actually built for the site to pump water to West London and started work on the 30th May 1846.

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 ...