This toy steam engine dates from 1940 and was made by Mamod ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

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 ...

Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire James Watt's steam engine The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

The historic 60532 ‘Blue Peter’ steam locomotive was pictured in West Cumbria as it carried passengers on a historic rail ...