Forty-six people were killed and another 56 were injured. It took days to recover some bodies, which were found as far as 10 miles downstream. Newspaper headlines dubbed the disaster the “The Truesdell Trap” and an American Society of Civil Engineers analysis later blamed a "faulty design"...
steam engine. At first, he couldn’t tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam ...
We picked 28 favorites from the more than 60 engines on display at Engines Exposed at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
The AS616 was Baldwin's best-selling of the series and perhaps proved it had turned a corner. Alas, new ownership forced it out of the locomotive business.
James Watt improved Newcomen’s design, which produced the steam engine that would start the Industrial Revolution. Bifocal lens (1784) Country: US Inventor: Benjamin Franklin The first bifocal (an eyeglass with lenses of two optical strengths) was invented by Benjamin Franklin. This discovery is...