George Westinghouse was a natural inventor and tinkerer whose work literally helped illuminate the world at the end of the ...

And while several prominent figures of the 18th and 19th ... the first century A.D., a Greek inventor named Hero of Alexandria designed the world's first aeolipile, or primitive steam turbine.

Thomas Blanchard of Massachusetts was a prolific inventor in his time, quite famous in fact, though seldom remembered today. During the first half of the 19th century, he developed a string of ...

So Stanford researchers decided to formally test it against humans Steam machines versus Human During the 1800s ... The story is based in fact, but the details change with the telling 21st Century ...

Rudolf Diesel was a talented inventor who designed devices from refrigerators to steam engines ... By the end of the 19th century, everything from power plants to cars were running on Diesel ...

After all, the late-19th century, 16-room mansion — currently on the market for $1.95 million — was meant to be the home of Morristown native and co-inventor of the telegraph Alfred Lewis Vail ...

Discover the complex history of the automobile, from early self-propelled vehicles to Karl Benz's invention of the ... "At the end of the 19th Century, a car was a “streetcar,” i.e. a tram ...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century ... Inventor of Rapid Fire Smallarms Among the many inventions from Richard Jordan Gatling include the screw propeller, a wheat drill for planting,a ...

The “Boneshaker” of the title of Priest’s book is a steam drill created by a 19th-century Seattle inventor, designed to crack Alaskan ice to get to the gold underneath. Things go bad ...

People on board Sir Goldsworthy's steam carriage on its journey from London to Bath in 1827 A 19th Century inventor who lost a fortune in legal disputes with Westminster ended up taking the hot ...

THE steam engine was one of the greatest inventions of the 18th century ... the need for constant heating and cooling. By the 19th century, Watt's improved steam engines were rapidly adopted ...