before internal combustion engines and electric motors took on the task of automating hard work you would have found small stationary steam engines in all corners of industry. These engines are on ...

New cycle trail closely follows the original 26-mile-route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway which first carried ...

is one of a complex character, and in some respects very different in its nature from that of a stationary steam engine. The efficient horse power of a locomotive may be very small, while its ...

Compared to some of the earlier forms of farming power like water wheels or steam engines ... the Hit-And-Miss engine was a ...

Ward W. O’Hara was a founder of the Agricultural & Country Living Museum that bears his name, located at Emerson Park in ...

Two times each year, the tractor and engine association invites the public to its historic farm grounds for a three-day ...

The museum, which is a volunteer-run charity, holds in its possession 30 old stationary steam engines, some of which had powered the cotton mills and woollen mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

It used a combination of horses, stationary steam engines and steam-powered locomotives to pull wagons along its 26 miles, from the coalfields of County Durham to the port on the River Tees at ...

Trevithick had already pioneered high pressure stationary steam engines for mining and driving machinery and Welsh iron entrepreneur Samuel Homfray bought shares in his patent and brought him to ...

1991. List of publications on the economic and social histoy of Great Britain and Ireland. The Economic History Review, Vol. 44, Issue. 4, p. 683.

IT was full steam ahead as Bolton Steam Museum opened its doors for the bank holiday. Historic engines were on full display at the event for visitors to see them working as they would have done ...