However, steam engines had their own set of shortcomings ... The valve, in turn, is controlled by a cam, which leads to the engine working on both strokes of the engine instead of one.

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 ...

A group of mostly volunteers are working to overhaul Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad's steam locomotive, the only operational one in Kansas.

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In the early years of the nineteenth century, steam engines were at work in a variety of practical uses. However, they were still imperfect in many ways. One particular problem were the boilers ...

The Steam Packet company says it's working to fix an engine problem, a week after the Manannan returned from her winter ...

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 ...

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company says it is working to restore fast craft Manannan to full power after a problem with one ...

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.

These two geniuses were the first to transfer heat energy into useable power using steam engines. Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas ...

either in its power of adapting the exact quantity of steam used to the work to be done, or its instantaneous acrion. The best modern engines show, by the indicator cards, between 60 and 90 per ...

A working pressure of steam can be generated ... We think this a simple and convenient form of steam fire engine, and admirably adapted from eight to ten minutes, and this can be maintained ...