A revolutionary new steam engine, described by its inventors as “an underwater jet engine”, may soon be powering dinghies and speedboats more efficiently, cleanly and safely than a conventional ...

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 demonstration model of an ...

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

THE author of this book holds the first place among those who many years ago made the locomotive an object of scientific study. His famous work on railway machinery is still of prime importance, ...

Steam engines. For most of us, they conjure images of horseless buggies, paddle ships and classic locomotives, but soon they may be setting new speed records and hitting new benchmarks for efficiency- ...

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 ...