Jua Tang, a professor at Wuhan University, has created a jet engine prototype that turns electricity directly into thrust. He believes that his invention has the potential to be scaled-up enough ...

With the invention of the jet engine so far in the past, one could be forgiven for thinking that the technology has long been mastered around the world. However, recent reports show that’s not ...

with a jet engine heralded the beginning of the jet age. This clip is from the series The Genius of Invention. This clip would be ideally suited to showing students the significant achievements of ...

Under the hot lights of a White House stage and the glare of brusque tycoons from ABC's Shark Tank, Felipe Gómez del Campo had 60 seconds to pitch his invention, a jet engine nozzle that reduces fuel ...

Eighty years ago, a piece of world-changing technology emerged from a semi-derelict garage in Leicestershire - the world's first viable jet engine. But as Frank Whittle's invention took to 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 ... The principle he used in his design is similar to that ...

How the invention of the jet engine transformed Britain after the Second World War and came to capture the imagination of a generation and define how the Cold War was fought.