The first steam powered vehicle to run on a British road.William Murdock was a brilliant Scottish engineer and inventor. In 1777 he walked from his home in Ayrshire to Birmingham to follow his ...

In it was a photograph of a steam train - 'City of Truro', of the Great Western Railway - which it was claimed reached 102mph during the first decade of the last century. Recently, there have been ...

In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive ... major scientific invention of electronic television by the Marconi / EMI corporation. The impact of the steam engine.

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 ...