The "cab-forward" design of steam locomotives, while an innovative idea, was often more trouble than it was worth. This design aimed to solve the visibility issue by placing the cab at the front of ...

Object Details Description This is a model of an early design for a compound steam engine. A compound steam engine consists of a high pressure cylinder and one or more lower pressure cylinders. The ...

History shows us that the steam engine never simply eliminated jobs. It shifted, changed and created entirely new ones. With AI, it will be the same.

Object Details inventor Van Deren, G. W. Description This model was filed with the application to the U.S. Patent Office for Patent Number 29,642 issued to G.W. Van Deren of Bigflats, New York on ...

Howe Industries has submitted the design for a solar-powered steam rocket engine for propelling CubeSats to the National Science Foundation. With only two moving parts, ThermaSat uses a thermal ...

At the time, people were regularly asking Watt how many horses his steam engine could replace, so he devised horsepower as a way of answering that question. Many years later, another standardized ...

The elder Latta eventually sold his steam engine design to Cincinnati-based The Lane & Bodley Co., which was one of the leading producers of steam-powered engines after the Civil War.

NORWICH — The antique, horse-drawn steam engine inside the Yantic Fire Engine Co.'s headquarters bay can't match its modern counterparts when it comes to mobility or pure gallon-pumping power, but it ...