James Watt was urged by Boulton to invent some form of rotary motion for his steam engines. The idea was to replace the reciprocating action of the original. In 1781 he did just that.

This is a vintage live steam engine made by the brand 'Bing'. 'Bing' was a German toy company founded in 1863 in Nuremberg, Germany by two brothers, Ignaz Bing and Adolf Bing, initially producing ...

The history of the rotary engine is a strange and wonderful tale that dates back as far as 1588 when Ramelli invented the first rotary-piston-type water pump. Almost 200 years later James Watt, a ...

Effectively, a guy told Watt that he wanted a steam engine that could do the work of 12 horses to turn a 24-foot-tall wheel two and a half turns each minute, Watt guessed each horse would pull 180 ...

ONE of the most interesting chapters in the history of the steam engine is that relating to the Cornish pumping engine. Early in the eighteenth century, Newcomen engines were installed for pumping ...

This 1800-watt steam iron station is more than a steam iron, so it gets my Best Inexpensive Semi-Pro Under $300 rating. This iron produces amazing amounts of consistent heat and steam thanks to ...

The Watt steam engine drastically increased fuel efficiency by minimizing heat loss, and improving power output. This left the Newcomen in the past, and the remaining units are now museum pieces.

1776: In Scotland, James Watt coins the term horsepower, using a horse’s pulling ability to distinguish his steam engines from weaker competitive designs. A.S.N.E. Journal. 1794: Robert Street of ...

When Scottish inventor James Watt came up with a new steam engine design in 1765 that required 75 per cent less coal to operate than its predecessor, many people logically presumed that coal ...

In 1776, the energy efficiency of Boulton & Watt’s steam engine was a mere 4%, converting only 100 BTUs of coal into 4 BTUs of useful work, primarily in pumping water out of tin mines in ...