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The Glover Steam Engine, a 106-year-old locomotive, makes its triumphant return after 70 years of silence. Watch history come ...
What is declared to be the largest steam-engine cylinder in the world was cast yesterday afternoon in the Morgan Iron Works of John Roach Son, at the foot of East Ninth-street. It is 18 feet long ...
Explore an overview of Steamtown USA and its journey from one man’s vision to a national historic site in Scranton ...
The engineer was blown 142 feet. Despite such accidents, by 1900 some 5,000 large steam traction engines a year were being made. But the steady improvement of internal-combustion engines ...
A mechanic of this city has constructed and set in motion a steam engine on the novel but obvious plan of working the “ inlet and ou,tlet valves “ by the direct' action of steam, instead of ...
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.
Luther R. Taught, of Macon, Georgia, has invented a very ingenious and original improvement for regulating the speed of steam engines, by cutting off the steam in the steam box when it exceeds the ...