More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

YouTube is quietly turning into a place where videos are no longer just watched, but played. Instead of clicking through to ...

Hydrolocking (or hydraulic lock) occurs when a liquid enters an engine’s cylinders, preventing the pistons from completing ...

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Planet-warming pollution rates exploded after the end of World War II. James Watt’s steam engine launched the Industrial ...

Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...

Imagine what life would be like without your phone, the internet, or even something as simple as electricity. It’s hard to ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Hidden in the charming town of North Judson sits the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, an extraordinary time capsule where Indiana’s rich railroad heritage comes roaring back to life through massive ...

His Stirling engine was much safer because it worked on a different principle than steam. Instead of relying on the expansion of high-pressure steam, the Stirling engine is a closed system with a ...

As you wander between vendor stalls, you’re surrounded by impressive relics of America’s industrial past—massive steam engines, tractors in every imaginable condition, and farm equipment that tells ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Stirling engines, which have been around for centuries, leverage temperature differentials in a gas to do light mechanical work. A new study ...