Model steam ... engine models up for sale at garage sales and various internet auction sites. The problem with these engines is the fact that many of them were sold as rough casting kits.

Everything you’d associate with a steam engine is there, but just barely. The tooling needed to accomplish this feat is pretty impressive too. [Chronova] are no strangers to precision work ...

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 ...

"All the engines will be running and every bit of kit that we've got that works will ... Established in 1982, the industrial heritage museum houses working steam engines and weaving looms.