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 ...

Vol. 2 consists of plates only. A later ed. of v. 2 only was published in 1845 with title: Illustrations of steam machinery and steam naval architecture. siris_sil_246041 ...

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 ...

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Chaotan One, the world’s first commercial power generator that uses supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) instead of steam, has ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — For all but one of the past 71 years, the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion has been a celebration of human invention and innovation, but absent from the event has been representation of ...

Rocket -- Changes in the atmosphere -- A great company of men -- The first and true inventor -- A very great quantity of heat -- Science in his hands -- The whole thing was arranged in my mind -- ...

The annexed engravings are views of an improved gague for steam engines, invented by J. L. Eastman, of East Boston, Mass,, who has taken measures to secure a patetit for the same. Figure 1 is an ...