By contrast, the steam engines that preceded the internal combustion engines and electric trains of today were anything but small and subtle. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ...

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 ...

Railroads began crisscrossing the countryside, steam engine trains pulling loads of ... but so did Daimler's Reitwagen. Electric power, a force that continues to move closer to center stage ...

Elon Musk has said that Donald Trump will be unable to stop the rise of electric cars because the success of the technology is “inevitable”.

fc propose a steam engine for driving the machinery of almost any factory. Neither a cotton nor woolen manufactory, it was believed, could be carried on but by the side of some river or creek ...

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 ...