Most people believe that Thomas Savery, a British engineer, was the one who invented the steam engine that later led to the Industrial Revolution. But is that really true? Who was the real ...

Years ago, the world's first steam engines paved the way for the technological advancements that we see today. Let's take a look at how they worked.

Pioneers like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt created ever-improving steam engines.  Over time, horses fell by the wayside as people took to this new mode of transportation. Railroads began ...

September 13, 2022 C incinnati’s wonderful Fire Museum on Court Street continually burnishes our city’s two fire-fighting claims to fame: Cincinnati created the first professional fire department in ...

The first steam engine ship, Diana, was launched on July 12, 1863, and became one of the earliest instances of a ...

Watt, when he invented the condenser, made, we might well sa,yj the last great improvement m the steam engine.

The diesel engine took the automotive world by storm, powering everything from cars to industrial machinery. The first patent came at the end of the 1800s.

IDEAS The steam engine changed the world. Artificial intelligence could destroy it. The US and China have to stop thinking of AI as an arms race.

If you were asked to guess when the steam engine was first invented, you'd probably guess around the 18th century, powering as it did the Industrial Revolution. And you'd be right to – but well ...

In the 1900s and 1910s, hundreds of new companies created cars of varying price and quality in limited numbers. Early automobiles—reflecting the fluid state of the emerging industry—were built with ...

The result is a well-researched and well-written biography of an inventor who, in 1897, created a new type of internal-combustion engine that quickly supplanted the steam engine and changed the ...