If we were to put the footprint of this engine into SMD context, we’d say it’s around a 2010 or so. As one would expect, the design is minimalistic, with no room for traditional bearings or ...

Steam engines haven't been the primary method of travel for decades, ... For instance, the Sentinel Waggon Works' water-tube boiler was a hit among railways for its design, ...

Steam engines, believe it or not, have been around for over 300 years. In England in 1698, Thomas Savery patented the first working steam engine—this was a simple machine that utilized the ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, ... After scaling up the design, and shifting to CNC-machined aluminium, it was starting to look a bit more serious.

IN this work the author treats of the application of the principles of mechanics to the design of the parts of a steam-engine of any type or for any duty. He acknowledges that he has culled as ...

The Savery steam engine was not a gigantic cauldron-and-ball contraption, a la Hero. It was a more complex design, though the concept behind it was rather similar.

This article was originally published with the title “ An Advance in Steam Engine Design ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 95 No. 3 (July 1906), p. 44 doi:10.1038 ...

At the time, people were regularly asking Watt how many horses his steam engine could replace, so he devised horsepower as a way of answering that question. Many years later, another standardized ...

The elder Latta eventually sold his steam engine design to Cincinnati-based The Lane & Bodley Co., which was one of the leading producers of steam-powered engines after the Civil War.

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.