The motorcycle engine has come a long way from its auspicious 19th-century beginnings, evolving over the years to include many types that still exist today.

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.

barely functional steam punk motorcycle. If this isn’t hacker art, then we don’t know what is. The most eye-catching part of the motorcycle is the engine and drive train, with most of the ...

Stirling engines are really cool machines, invented by Reverend Dr. Robert Stirling in 1816 to rival the steam engine, they are one of the most efficient engines ever conceived. Building one is ...

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 ...