TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

This article was originally published with the title “Romance of the Steam Engine” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 3 No. 24new (December 1860), p. 372 ...

Look for these stories each Monday in print. In the late 1830s, Joseph Forsyth, the guiding force behind the Arcadia water-powered industrial park on Pond Creek, was realizing that steam engines ...