Vintage steam engines took over the streets of Camborne yesterday as locals celebrated Trevithick Day 2025. The annual ...

An army of unpaid volunteers are behind a Cornwall town's annual festival celebrating the famous inventor Richard Trevithick.

The birthplace of the bicycle, steam engine and jet engine, the UK has a long history of innovation. Here’s how key inventions of the past connect to research that has the potential to transform the ...

While automatic transmissions are so common now that they've largely supplanted stick shifts. When was the first automatic transmission developed?

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might ... The Chinese also invented fireworks rockets, which many people enjoy blowing ...

The Watercress Line will host a 'gala of firsts' at this year's Spring Steam Gala. The popular event, which will take place from April 25 to 27, will see new guest locomotives on the tracks and the ...

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For most of that time, their inventor was unknown. Dorothy Christian Moore knew the rules when she climbed in the dark to the ship’s bridge. “This is strictly forbidden,” she wrote as she ...

It is currently unknown which steam engine will arrive but it is thought to be either the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Clun Castle or Bahamas. The train will be at Worcester's Shrub Hill Train ...

Interesting Engineering Who REALLY Invented the Steam Engine? Posted: April 3, 2025 | Last updated: April 3, 2025 Most people believe that Thomas Savery, a British engineer, was the one who ...