MOUNT PLEASANT — For all but one of the past 71 years, the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion has been a celebration of human invention and innovation, but absent from the event has been representation of ...

An atmospheric steam engine built for Caprington Colliery, Ayshire, in 1811 to a design developed by Thomas Newcomen a century earlier. This was less efficient than James Watt's steam engine, but ...

Have you ever wondered why we still measure an engine's output in horsepower? It all started as clever marketing, but the ...

History proclaims that James Watt’s reinvention of the (Thomas) Newcomen steam engine with Matthew Boulton launched the Industrial Revolution and transformed the world. But history politely downplays ...

As is fully recognised to-day, it was the invention of the atmospheric steam pumping engine by New-comen that saved many mines from closing down and provided for the first time an engine capable of ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three individuals who elucidated technological innovation and ...

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ON April 21, simultaneous meetings of the Newcomen Society took place in London and New York, when two papers were read. The first of these was by Dr. A. Raistrick, and was entitled “The Steam Engine ...

The pioneering work of James Watt will be celebrated by the University of Glasgow with a year of events marking 200 years since the engineer’s death. This year also marks the 250th anniversary of Watt ...

A team of students have used 3D printing technology to create a model of a steam engine originally designed by James Watt more than 200 years ago. The JetX student society at the University of Glasgow ...

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