Piston engines are the heart of many machines we use today, from cars and airplanes to industrial machinery and motorcycles. Their history is one of innovation, experimentation, and continuous ...

Vintage engraving of a Diagram of James Watt's Double acting steam engine. James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam ...

Iowa Interstate Railroad's Chinese-built 2-10-2 steam engine will run from Newton, Iowa, to Bureau, Ill., this weekend for train buffs who like to see steam engines.

A court in Algeria has sentenced French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes to seven years in prison on charges of “glorifying terrorism” and “possessing propaganda publications harmful to the ...

With over 1,200 exhibits attending each year, the County of Salop Steam Engine Society’s 2025 Rally is a fantastic family-friendly two-day event that promises to delight visitors to the ...

The B Class Climax 1317 steam engine was gifted to Te Awamutu by former mayor, the late Jonas Smyth, in the 1950s.SUPPLIED / Cambridge-Edition Local reporting is vital to a thriving and connected ...

In a press briefing Tuesday, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General forewarned that Syria’s health system “remains under severe strain,” leaving almost 16 million people in urgent need of ...

THIS treatise is intended as an elementary text-book for technical students. In many respects it fulfils its purpose, at least better than any book of moderate size with which we are acquainted ...

They will have much to learn, and their knowledge will cost them too dear. An attempt to excel, materially, the reciprocating engine, in point of economy, by substituting a rotary, is chimerical.

All steam locomotives have been withdrawn from the Great Central Railway (GCR) after a series of wildfires next to the line. Bosses on the heritage line say they are taking the precautionary ...