The steam engine may seem like a relic of the past. But without this game-changing invention, the modern world would be a much different place.

Nearly 1,800 years before the start of the Industrial Revolution, an ancient engineer by the name of Heron created the world’s first steam engine. In 62 A.D., the Roman Empire’s cultural ...

News Published: 20 December 1924 The Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines Nature 114, 913–914 (1924) Cite this article ...

Despite this, gasoline engines remain more popular than their diesel counterparts, especially in the U.S., contrary to how Franco-German engineer Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the first diesel ...