Object Details Description This is a model of an early design for a compound steam engine. A compound steam engine consists of a high pressure cylinder and one or more lower pressure cylinders. The ...

We're riding the rails through history at the Henry Ford, exploring how a steam locomotive works in this week's Moment of Science! 🚂🚃🚃 ...

Description This is a model of a steam engine utilizing the Corliss patent design for an automatic cutoff gear. George H. Corliss was a prolific inventor of steam technology in the middle 1800s and ...

But for a paleontologist, the replacement of steam-powered trains with diesel and electric engines, as well as cars and trucks, might be a model of how some species in the fossil record died out.

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...