IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This toy steam engine was ...

If engineering choices a hundred years ago had been only slightly different, we could have ended up in a world full of steam engines rather than internal combustion engines. For now, though, steam ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The ¾ inch to 1 foot scale model of the 2-6-2 Baldwin Locomotive built by ...

Bobbi Horr, 5, Holton, inspects a scale model steam engine built by Ed Schweder, of St. Joseph, Mo., Saturday at the McLouth Threshing Bee. The 52nd annual threshing bee in McLouth was bittersweet for ...

Editor's note: This is the second installment in a series of stories featuring local collectors. Check each Tuesday print edition as well as www.ourmidland.com for future installments. For Brandon ...

Ed Droxler leans over the model engine and connects wires to a car battery, causing the red piece of machinery to cough life into its metallic lungs. The Olds “Hit & Miss” gasoline engine lives up to ...

In a world propelled by combustion engines, gas turbines and nuclear reactors, the steam engine may seem like a relic of the past. But without this game-changing invention, the modern world would be a ...