In a recent video, Dug built a tin can steam engine from a 1963 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. "When heated with a small alcohol stove this little engine can spin extremely fast," says Dug. "I walk ...

By contrast, the steam engines that preceded the internal combustion engines and electric trains of today were anything but small and subtle. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ...

IN the summer of 1893, I made some experiments on the effect of steam-jacketing small steam-engine cylinders by placing the whole of the cylinder and valve chest inside the boiler; the increase of ...

Before the steam engine can be called an economical power ... are giving off large amounts may perhaps be wasting but a small percentage of the whole loss. Watt, when he invented the condenser ...