one mail power to a two-horse power—may be made to turn a heavy piece of machinery or a child's plaything, and may be put up ... N.T. Portable steam engines, we know, interest a large class ...

The up and down motion of the piston ... 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 ...

Think about how mind-shattering it would have been to see something like Hero’s Engine, the first known example of a steam turbine ... penetrating the lid of a large kettle.

If engineering choices a hundred years ago had been only slightly different, we could have ended up in a world full of steam engines rather than internal combustion engines. For now, though ...