Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...

Ride along with HOT ROD as Union Pacific’s legendary Big Boy No. 4014 completes its historic America 250 coast-to-coast steam ...

Who has the longest beard? Best apple pie? Fastest outhouse? All these will be determined at the 74th annual Jubilee in New ...

This video follows an attempt to recreate Hero of Alexandria’s steam engine from raw materials and see whether it could do practical work. The build runs into sealing problems, friction, steam loss, ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a model illustrating the ...

With a puff of black smoke and the toot of a whistle, SL Fuyu-no-Shitsugen Train (The winter wetland steam engine) ...

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When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the ...

Volunteers trying to move and restore a historic steam locomotive from Swindon are painstakingly close to reaching their fundraising target.