The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...

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 ...

CHARLES CITY, Iowa --- Jason Skillen of Greene pointed to a huge configuration of iron wheel, cylinders and pistons housed in a metal building on the grounds of the Cedar Valley Engine Club west of ...

At the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, one of America's last working steam engines is firing up. Until just a few years ago, it was used to generate electricity for the school. These days, it's mostly ...

Sometimes, looking back at history helps us understand what is happening to us today. When the steam engine arrived in factories, it wasn’t just a technical innovation, it changed the world. Suddenly, ...

CHEYENNE - Union Pacific engineer Lynn Nystrom sat in the black vinyl engineer's seat of steam engine No. 844. Nystrom sported overalls that an engineer might have worn in 1944, the year the steam ...