steam engine: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - The Steam Engine. Oct 25, 2026
Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - Flash boiling steam engine (PDF). Nov 25, 2025
Add new Web site: Gresham College - An Engine of Commerce? Steam Technology and Global Maritime Trade, 1860-1910: Studies in success and failure. Oct 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Cornell University - eCommons - The Steam-Engine as a train of Mechanism (PDF). Aug 21, 2025
Add new Web site: SPARK: Scholarship at Parkland - The Steam Engine and Industrialization (PDF). Jun 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Edison Tech Center - Steam Trains. Sep 11, 2024
Add new Web site: American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Steam Engine Collection. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: National Coal Mining Museum - The Rise of the Steam Engine. Jun 18, 2024
Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Thomas Newcomen and the Steam Engine. Feb 16, 2024
Links added. Jun 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Michigan State University - College of Engineering - Brief History of the Steam Engine. May 16, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - The Steam Engine in the British Industrial Revolution. Apr 07, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Houston - The Engines of Our Ingenuity - Inventing the Steam Engine. Aug 26, 2022
Add new Web site: Linda Hall Library - The Transcontinental Railroad - It's All About Steam. May 13, 2022
Add new Web site: Inventors and Inventions - The Steam Engine. May 13, 2022
Corrected display issue. May 02, 2019
Add new Web site: Virginia Museum of Transportation - Steam Locomotives. Jan 19, 2017
Add new Web site: Michigan State University - College of Engineering - Brief History of the Steam Engine. Jan 19, 2017
Add new Web site: LiveScience - Who Invented the Steam Engine? Jul 08, 2016
Add new Web site: Easy Science for kids - All About Steam Engines. Jul 08, 2016
Added video. Mar 24, 2015
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Steam Engine Invention. Apr 25, 2013
Added new Web site: The Victorian Web - The Steam Engine. Jan 04, 2009
Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Steam Engine. Jan 02, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Steam Engines Work. Dec 28, 2008
Media added. May 11, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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