Vintage engraving of a Diagram of James Watt's Double acting steam engine. James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam ...

Vintage engraving of a Diagram of James Watt's Double acting steam engine. James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam ...

Piston engines are the heart of many machines we use today, from cars and airplanes to industrial machinery and motorcycles. Their history is one of innovation, experimentation, and continuous ...

With over 1,200 exhibits attending each year, the County of Salop Steam Engine Society’s 2025 Rally is a fantastic family-friendly two-day event that promises to delight visitors to the ...

Object Details Description An engine indicator is an instrument for graphically recording the pressure versus piston displacement through an engine stroke cycle. Engineers use the resulting diagram to ...

THIS treatise is intended as an elementary text-book for technical students. In many respects it fulfils its purpose, at least better than any book of moderate size with which we are acquainted ...

They will have much to learn, and their knowledge will cost them too dear. An attempt to excel, materially, the reciprocating engine, in point of economy, by substituting a rotary, is chimerical.

The Locomotion Number One and two other pioneering steam engines have been at Hopetown Darlington as part of the landmark Railway Pioneers exhibition. The free event, which has already attracted ...

The event on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, marked three quarters of a century since Arthur Napper and Miles Chetwynd-Stapylton D.F.C had a race with their traction engines. It was this event ...

An iconic steam engine is set to carry passengers across the Forth Bridge this summer. The Scottish Railway Preservation Society Railtours announced it will offer passengers the chance to cross the ...

Built in 1894, Queen Street Mill played a crucial role in Lancashire 's cotton industry, which was a major driver of Britain 's industrialisation. When it was at its peak around a century ago, the ...