“Well, you disengage the track and stick a block of wood in and move forward ... the Roots of Motive Power Museum started collecting steam engines, locomotives and antique heavy equipment ...

Think about how mind-shattering it would have been to see something like Hero’s Engine, the first known example of a steam turbine. To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam while ...

We had no idea that what’s needed to convert an internal combustion engine to steam power is actually rather trivial. [David Nash] shows us how it’s done by performing the alterations on the ...

The steam cylinder piston goes down under the pressure of steam and differences in atmospheric pressure created by the partial vacuum beneath the piston. The beam, powered by the cylinder piston ...