When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny ...

To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam while flames licked ... the lid of a large kettle. [Make It Extreme] took great pains to make the engine safe, with relief valves and ...

The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of ...

By contrast, the steam engines that preceded the internal combustion engines and electric trains of today were anything but small and subtle. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ...