In 1868, the most powerful engines in the world were located 16 miles west of Tamaqua. The power was necessary to hoist coal up a mountainside, coal that helped to build the country.The engines were ...

Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and ...

Edwin Thaddeus Pawlowski died on Tuesday at age 94, but his presence will remain in Johnstown for generations to come, found ...

Electrical work on the Inclined Plane’s operators booth has been completed – and has now shifted to the funicular’s pneumatic brakes, CamTran officials said. CamTran released a public update on the ...

This article was originally published with the title “Circular Inclined Plane” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 2 No. 36 (May 1847), p. 285 doi:10.1038 ...

In Episode 4 of Jiwi's Machines, titled "Recipe for Disaster," Jiwi constructs a complex chain-reaction machine to perform a simple task, leading to unexpected chaos. This episode highlights the ...

Other conservative media figures seem less inclined to move on. “This is not a gift” from Qatar, it’s “a bribe,” Batya Ungar-Sargon, who has championed the MAGA movement on CNN and other ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Main haul and sheave wheels have been reinstalled at the Johnstown Inclined Plane, wrapping up one phase of a project that was sidetracked for a year. The move is allowing ...

The paper reviews previous work on the DC inclined plane test and suggests equivalent DC voltage levels in parallel to AC voltage in the ASTM inclined plane tracking and erosion test. The aim of this ...

CamTran reports April progress on the Johnstown Inclined Plane project, including wheel installations, scaffolding removal and reopening of Edgehill Drive.

Dive into the science of inclined planes in Episode 4 of Jiwi's Machines. This special Science Extra episode breaks down how simple machines like ramps can do extraordinary work through clever ...