IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The first steam engine produced by ...

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This portable steam engine, named the “Eclipse,” was built by the Frick Company in 1877. The portable steam engine was a self-propelling, steam-powered mechanism that could be utilized in fields, ...

Engraved handbill: Chaplin's patent portable steam engines and boilers, c. 1875. Advert for steam crane, with scene of one at work on the International Exhibition building of 1862 Engraved handbill: ...

The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...

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Built to last and as big as a dinosaur, it was obsolete before it left the factory in 1920. Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay canopy with a red fringe on top, the Huber "steam traction engine" ...