Before the steam engine can be called an economical power, our modern system of boilers must be immensely improved, or an entirely new system of applying the heat to the water must be contrived.

The Severn Valley Railway has announced that Chaloner will be visiting them for their Through The Ages Event. The event is ...

Steam buffs were in for a treat with the latest instalment of RAS Abbott’s history of vertical boiler locomotives. Perhaps less well known or celebrated than their freight and passenger carrying ...

In addition, a tour is open to the public starting at 11 a.m. today from the museum to visit a similar, but vertical ... engines was the hiss of steam and workers shoveling coal into a boiler.

According to specifications, it was equipped with a 30-inch-diameter vertical boiler 6 feet 6 inches high, and a vertical steam engine with 5½-inch bore and 7-inch stroke, developing 7 horsepower at ...

Steam engine makers have been- occupied ... First—The entire machine, including its boiler, occupies no more room than, an ordinary turning lathe. Second—It is as easy pat together as ...

American Steam will do its own restoration work. A number of engine and rail-car owners use the Cleveland facility to do their work. In its current form, the engine has an oil-fired boiler ...

The boiler may be built from corrosion-proof materials, and if the steam flows fast enough it will blast out any other deposits. With no moving internal parts, and no propeller, the engine should ...

A DISCUSSION on the standards of comparison in connexion with the thermal efficiency of steam engines was held ... December n. The Heat Engine and Boiler Trials Tabulation Committee has ...