Beginning in the 1770s, many people tried to make cars that would run on steam. Some early steam cars worked well ... Why do most cars today run on gasoline? The gasoline engine has been reliable, ...

Southern Railway chief mechanical engineer Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid designed the engine during ... travel in the early hours of Sunday morning in a re-creation of the night steam trains ...

Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712. These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used ...