Want to create a simple yet powerful wind or steam engine? This DIY project shows you how to turn a 100cc motor block into a ...

All seals of this homemade steam engine were created solely by precise glass-on-glass fit. ... The first commercial steam engine using a piston belonged to Thomas Newcomen.

Condensation also pulls a fairly strong vacuum. At 100C, 1.3cc of steam condenses to about 1 cubic millimeter of water. Engines which use that kind of boost from a phase change are called ...

Labor Day morning blacksmith, artist, snowshoe maker, etc., Carl Close of Middleton invited friends to see his homemade steam engine in operation. This smoothly running beauty would fit in a 3 x 3 ...

The world's smallest steam engine combines a small plastic bead with lasers to replicate the same basic idea envisioned by inventor Robert Stirling almost 200 years ago. IE 11 is not supported.

The USS Monitor, launched in 1862, was powered by a high-pressure steam engine. And, like all of the engines just discussed, it was a reciprocating engine—that is, an engine that relies on pistons.