Questions tagged [steam-engines]
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Napoleon I and Fulton: Steamship rejection story real?
A fairly well-known story is Fulton offering to build steam ships for The Emperor and Napoleon replying something like, "A ship that sails by bonfires under its decks?? Away with you, visionist!" (This story is alluded to in The Making of the Atomic…
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Why was using rockets to propel a winged vehicle not proposed in the 19th century?
My understanding that among the key technologies that allowed manned flight was a powerful enough engine that was also lightweight. Steam was attempted but the gasoline engine turned out to be key.
Two other technologies besides steam and gasoline…
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Was knowledge derived from the scientific method required to build commercial steam engines?
Historically steam engines got developed in England after the introduction of the hypothetico-deductive scientific method. Was the hypothetico-deductive method or knowledge about thermodynamics or metallurgy required for the development of…
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