Long before the Industrial Revolution, one man in ancient Greece was building machines that shouldn’t have been possible. He ...

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 ...

Vol. 2 consists of plates only. A later ed. of v. 2 only was published in 1845 with title: Illustrations of steam machinery and steam naval architecture. siris_sil_246041 ...

Dr. Harry Tabor, director of Israel’s National Physical Laboratory has invented a one-way mirror which will convert solar energy to steam thus bringing solar electric power within the range of ...