I was fascinated by his claims that he drove Rocket, the steam locomotive designed by Robert Stephenson, at the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830. The more I tried to find out ...

you wouldn't be alone if your mind immediately went to the highly advanced rocket engines powering spaceflight. What might be more surprising, however, is that the most powerful steam engine in ...

It was the first locomotive to have a multi-tube boiler ... This meant that the boiler generated more power (steam), so the Rocket was able to go faster than its rival, and thus secure its ...