We had no idea that what’s needed to convert an internal combustion engine to steam power is actually rather trivial. [David Nash] shows us how it’s done by performing the alterations on the ...

The Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London has the largest working Cornish Steam Engine in the World. It was actually built for the site to pump water to West London and started work on the 30th May 1846.

Despite the widespread conversion to electrical power at other collieries, this winding engine continued to be powered by steam until Elliot Colliery closed in 1967. A first phase of restoration ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

Despite recent advances, thermoelectric energy conversion will never be as efficient ... Honda, for example, have tested a system using a Rankine steam engine to generate electricity from waste ...