Steam engines from Rhode Island were brought in ... Logging railroads in the late 1800s allowed more timberlands to be harvested, and the various mills exported even more lumber than they had ...

By the 1800s, steam engines were powering mills, factories, breweries and a host of other manufacturing operations. In 1852, the first flight of a steam-powered airship took place. Future ...

Among the most impressive were the large steam traction engines including a fully restored 1915 Case Steam Traction Engine. One would not think of South Dakota as a hot bed of farming ...

Transportation was one of those important beneficiaries. By the early 1800s, high-pressure steam engines had become compact enough to move beyond the factory, prompting the first steam-powered ...

in addition to the equipment’s threshers and locomotive steam traction engines. With production in full swing by the late 1800s, the company’s capital was increased with another $10,000.

(The steam turbine, a type of engine used in the Titanic and other steamships, wasn't developed until the late 1800s.) In this Hot Science, you have complete control of your own virtual ...

It was a behemoth of a machine, housed in an area of 1,800 square feet and weighing a ludicrous 30 tons. One of the first steam engines — dubbed the Newcomen engine after its creator Thomas ...

Nearly 1,800 years before the start of the Industrial Revolution, an ancient engineer by the name of Heron created the world’s first steam engine. In 62 A.D., the Roman Empire’s cultural ...

NORTHFIELD – As a kid growing up here, Thomas Luetzow knew what it meant when he heard a steam engine's whistle echo ... to recreate the lost era of 1800s rail travel. "It was his passion ...

Behind the build is Alex Sharphouse, from Bouth near Ulverston, who owns John Fowler & Co (Leeds) Ltd - one of the leading manufacturers of steam engines throughout the 1800s and 1900s.