Not many locomotives can be said to have played a part in promoting the Olympic Games.But the Green Knight was called upon to ...

Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ; and many powerful fire engines worked exclusively by ...

Dufardin relates, that a fire broke out a short ... seemed inevitable, and the engines were sent for, when it was proposed to fill the blazing room: with steam. A steam tube traversed the ...