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, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a demonstration model of an ...

MayMaan's first flagship engine, the Aquastroke 2.3 liter. In the quest to electrify everything, we run the risk of missing out on a potentially superior alternative for reducing emissions: an ...

For seven years now, a huge, unique and remarkable feat of engineering has lain tragically dormant at Wigan Pier.

The steam engine is often credited as one of the most transformative inventions in human history. It laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution, revolutionised transport, and shifted the ...

Iowans look on as Big Boy No. 4014, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world, rolls into Belle Plaine on Thursday afternoon. The Union Pacific engine is touring Midwestern and Southern ...

If engineering choices a hundred years ago had been only slightly different, we could have ended up in a world full of steam engines rather than internal combustion engines. For now, though, steam ...

A gigantic steam engine could soon run on the railroad tracks in Nashville once again. People working to revive the train said that the breath-taking sight of a steam engine huffing and puffing along ...

Cincinnati’s wonderful Fire Museum on Court Street continually burnishes our city’s two fire-fighting claims to fame: Cincinnati created the first professional fire department in the United States in ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Operating Museum in Tucson has been named the number one destination ...