There’s steam rising from the bonnet louvres and I quickly zig zag across to the narrow hard shoulder, hazards on, writes ...

Iowa Interstate Railroad's Chinese-built 2-10-2 steam engine will run from Newton, Iowa, to Bureau, Ill., this weekend for train buffs who like to see steam engines.

They will have much to learn, and their knowledge will cost them too dear. An attempt to excel, materially, the reciprocating engine, in point of economy, by substituting a rotary, is chimerical.

One often popular sight can be the birds which are around over the summer whether they are blackbirds, blue tits, coal tits, robins or wrens among others. And there are things you can do to make ...

0 0 This article was originally published with the title “The Friction of Steam Engines” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 23 No. 1 (July 1870), p. 4 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07021870-4 ...

Using the mixture of air and steam as gasification medium, three different rank coal partial gasification studies were carried out in a bench-scale atmospheric fluidized bed with the various operating ...