Ask a person in the street who invented the steam engine and you’re more than likely to hear the names of various Renaissance inventors such as Denis Papin or James Watt. Less well known is the fact ...

Horsepower is a relic of the steam age, yet it still dominates spec sheets, showroom chatter, and online debates about ...

A 40-acre field in Canandaigua was transformed into a mecca of wheels, whistles and water vapor as the New York Steam Engine Association Pageant of Steam chugged along Thursday. Steam engine and heavy ...

Engineering choices can force automakers to make adjustments down the road, like Chevrolet did with the implementation of steam tubes on its LS engines.

Steam engines. For most of us, they conjure images of horseless buggies, paddle ships and classic locomotives, but soon they may be setting new speed records and hitting new benchmarks for efficiency- ...

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 ...

C H E Y E N N E, Wyo., April 14 -- There it was — steam locomotive 3985 — a vision out of the World War II years, all steamed up and ready to head out again from the Union Pacific Railroad Company's ...

Sometimes, looking back at history helps us understand what is happening to us today. When the steam engine arrived in factories, it wasn’t just a technical innovation, it changed the world. Suddenly, ...

Few would assume that acquiring a rusting 1937 steam locomotive from a museum in Kansas represents a step forward for clean energy. But a collaboration between the University of Minnesota’s Institute ...

Jim Plunkett smoked Salems and wore Ray-Bans, and his jeans were hitched with a big brass buckle. Stamped on the buckle was "2467," the name of the mighty old locomotive that has been a part of ...

Australian engineers might have solved one of the biggest obstacles to scaling up solar energy — the lack of affordable storage technology that allows solar to be used at peak demand after the sun ...

What if you could draw energy from the night sky without effort? That's the question that researchers at the University of ...