John Deere is a household name, but once he was just a man. Who was the real John Deere, and how did he start the business ...

We had no idea that what’s needed to convert an internal combustion engine to steam power is actually rather trivial. [David Nash] shows us how it’s done by performing the alterations on the ...

Want more displacement? We’ve covered the simplest steam engine, and an insanely detailed steampunk battleship, which of course is powered by steam.

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The Stretham Old Engine is a steam-powered engine once used to fight floods in the area. The engine dates back to 1831, when it was built on the banks of the River Great Ouse at a cost of £4,950 – ...

Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste ...

Nordberg steam engines, which had powered massive cane crushers, pumps and other equipment in the sugar mills, were purchased “for a dollar deal” from the Kula estate of Laurence “Baron ...

A. Walter I, the Steam Powered Giraffe robots still run off their original steam-powered engines and artificial intelligence. But you'll find no generic boilers or clockwork brains in these robots!

Each year, we see dramatic photographs of Cambridgeshire after floods leave fields and roads underwater. There are plenty of modern initiatives designed to fight floods, but a previous generation ...