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 superlatives ...

Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to electric motors, but what about steam power? We have all seen those cute ...

Lakeside resident Don Bumgarner shows off his steam-engine-driven rotisserie grill, powered by an 1890s model New York Safety Steam Power Company 500-pound engine. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) The ...

In the middle of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn is the 25-acre Pratt Institute campus, a gorgeous collection of landmarked buildings amidst open green space. On the first floor of East Hall (originally the ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

I recreated Hero's aeolipile machine to see if this very first steam engine could be put to work. Could the industrial ...