Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption, The Newcomen steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The engine was commonly found in coal ...

The steam-powered world of the industrial revolution may seem far removed from the quantum realm. But this period of dramatic change was bolstered by thermodynamics, which deals with heat ...

To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam ... the industrial revolution two millennia early boggles the mind. And while we’ve seen far, far simpler versions of Hero’s Engine ...