Steam has powered trains, cars, boats, and trolleys. Here's the story of the little engine that could.

Marc Greuther, chief curator at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, explored the history of steam power in the "Made in America: Power" exhibit and explained the origins of the ...

The steam engine enabled development of industries based on mechanical—rather than human or animal—energy. Soon, just about every manufacturing plant had its own steam-engine power plant.

Steam remained one of the main sources of power into the start of the 20th century, but we then decided that electricity and combustion engines were much more practical.

Sixteen hundred years after the ancient Greek scientist first made mention of the untapped power of steam, the technology would become the hero and the engine that drove the Industrial Revolution.

More than 88 years after the last Stanley rolled off the assembly line, steam power devotees and developers gathered for the first annual Steam Automobile Club of America (SACA) conference last ...

The Norfolk & Western 611, often regarded as one of the most iconic steam locomotives in history, stands as a testament to the ingenuity and craftsmanship of steam engineering. From its debut in 1950 ...

Steam engines played a pivotal role in building up the town of Bagdad in the 1800s.

Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American ‘Wild West’, where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly ...

Marc Greuther, Chief Curator at The Henry Ford explores the history of steam power in the 'Made in America: Power' exhibit and explains the origins of the innovations that helped make America a… ...