The Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London has the largest working Cornish Steam Engine in the World. It was actually built for the site to pump water to West London and started work on the 30th May 1846.

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ; and many powerful fire engines worked exclusively by ...

Think about how mind-shattering it would have been to see something like Hero’s Engine, the first known example of a steam turbine. To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam while ...