This all started with a steam engine machined from a stainless steel bolt and a brass cylinder. It was tested using compressed air before building the boiler. But what’s a steam engine without a ...

Before the steam engine can be called an economical power, our modern system of boilers must be immensely improved, or an entirely new system of applying the heat to the water must be contrived.

There are only a couple of important parts between the engine and the boiler. There’s an in-line oil reservoir to help combat the corrosive nature of the steam. There is also a check valve.

A cloud of smoke and the distant toot of a whistle signalled the end of a 14-year steam engine restoration project on the ...

A represents the steam boiler, provided with three hundred Ii ... secured to one of the hind wheels. E is a rotary engine, constructed on the plan of Holly's patent, as shown in our former ...

A railway historian cooked pancakes on a steam engine's boiler for Shrove Tuesday. Tim Dunn, a broadcaster and railway historian, visited The Watercress Line to make the pancakes on the ...

The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers. As much as 530 tons of coal was poured into three steam engines last year ...