Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...

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An historic steam engine rumbled to life Friday in Shreveport for the first time in 28 years. The steam pumping engine is one of the last of it's kind in the country. It's part of the McNeill Street ...

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As is fully recognised to-day, it was the invention of the atmospheric steam pumping engine by New-comen that saved many mines from closing down and provided for the first time an engine capable of ...