The steam engine is often credited as one of the most transformative inventions in human history. It laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution, revolutionised transport, and shifted the ...

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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 ...

In 62 A.D., the Roman Empire’s cultural capital of Alexandria, hugging the northern shore of Egypt, was a tide pool of new religions. Nearly half-a-century after the reign of Caesar Augustus, the ...

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Pious Labor by Amanda Lanzillo quotes from Kalid-i-san‘at ( The Key to Industry , 1890) by Hakimuddin, who worked at the North Western State Railway Locomotive Department at Sukkur (Sindh). He refers ...

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 ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny superlatives ...