Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...

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 ...

ALAMOSA, Colo. — Engine 169 is “the little engine that could.” Ruth Heide, Valley Courier via AP In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, photograph, Jim Poston, a member of the Locomotive 169/Business Car B-1 ...

Richard Trevithick did not own slaves. He was a barely literate engineer, born toward the end of the 18th century, who grappled with—and ultimately solved—the question of how to improve the steam ...

One of the greatest inventions is the steam engine. But why? One of the greatest inventions is the steam engine. But why? What makes it so useful? And how does it work? In this episode of Crash Course ...