One of the first steam engines — dubbed the Newcomen engine after its creator Thomas Newcomen — was also formidable at 9.5 meters long and tall. This majestic machine was developed for the ...

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 ...

Before the steam engine can be called an economical power ... of all sea-going steamers must of necessity use salt water, the first improvement should be a better method of abstracting the ...

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 Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas ...

The little model engine was the first steam engine ever used in Argentina.Made by the Birmingham firm of Elkington & Co., this clock barometer was presented to the chief engineer of the Buenos ...

Unlike Roper's design, however, there was no steam involved. Belgian inventor Étienne Lenoir developed the first commercially successful internal combustion engine in 1860. Though rudimentary and ...