The Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London has the largest working Cornish Steam Engine in the World. It was actually built for the site to pump water to West London and started work on the 30th May 1846.

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 ...

These two geniuses were the first to transfer heat energy into useable power using steam engines. Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas ...