The steam engine is still shaping Germany's economy long after its invention with a new study saying areas that adopted the ...

Although (or perhaps because) the Western world is fairly well along in its transition from an industrial, manufacturing-oriented society to a postindustrial, information-based one, histories of the ...

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Steam is among the most common phenomena on Earth—boil water, and it appears. Wrangling it into engines was among the most significant developments in human history, not to mention fashion. For it's ...

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All Nicolaus Otto wanted to do was make enough money to marry his wife, settle down and begin a career. He was 26 and a seemingly happy young man who was content to sell sugar, rice, coffee or tea ...

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 ...

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