Before the steam engine can be called an economical power, our modern system of boilers must be immensely improved, or an entirely new system of applying the heat to the water must be contrived.

It all worked in the end, enough so that the engine managed 42,000 RPM on a test with compressed air. We eagerly await the equally tiny boiler for a live steam test.

Technically, steam engines have existed since the 1st century ... One end was attached to the valve and the other to the boiler, and the motion allowed for constant supplies of steam and cooled ...

The wet steam, on the water issuing from the boiler, gives this minimum proportion. The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake, is as simple ...

The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers. As much as 530 tons of coal was poured into three steam engines last year ...

With the inspection, cleaning and conditioning of the drivers of former Pennsylvania Railroad Class K4s 4-6-2 steam engine No ...

A 1930s steam engine which was bought for £50 in 1950 ... "It was delivered at 4 o'clock in the morning and two engineers lit the boiler and after two hours it had got to operating temperature ...