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 is a model of an early design ...

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 model was filed with the ...

In the late 1960s, the US government asked car companies to come up with ways to make their cars pollute less. Smog had recently become a big concern–particularly in California–and the Feds encouraged ...

A drawing of the Reindeer, New Brunswick inventor Benjamin Tibbits' famous pride and joy. The important part was what was inside: the compound steam engine. Tibbits' invention would change sea travel ...

"On a sunny day, the stored steam contains enough energy that it can be taken down through all four stages of the compound steam engine." TerraJoule, in Redwood City, Calif., is developing ...

AFTER Watt's invention of the separate condenser, many years elapsed before the next considerable step in marine engineering—the introduction of the compound steam-engine. This was natural, as steam ...

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THE future of East Lancashire's largest steam engine hangs in the balance due to a museum’s ‘swingeing’ highways drainage charges of over a thousand pounds. Bancroft Mill Engine Trust in Barnoldswick, ...

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