This article was originally published with the title “A Simple Construction of a Model Steam Engine” inSA Supplements Vol. 59 No. 1527supp(April 1905), p. 24464doi:10.1038 ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny ...

[Erich] wanted to help out with his 7-year-old’s science project. They decided to build a working model of a steam engine but couldn’t find online instructions appropriate for the age group.

Glenn Smythe picked up his tools and started building a steam engine in his Adelaide Hills shed two decades ago. He hasn't looked back.

And you'd be right to – but well over a thousand years before that, shortly after 0 CE, Hero of Alexandria described a sort of steam engine, used for an unknown purpose. The device is a simple ...