I feel I've reached a good stopping point with the Age of Steam, just before the appearance of the first effective high-pressure steam engines and the first steam-powered vehicles. Therefore I'm going to put the series on hiatus while I focus on turning The Backbone series into a book, similar to the one I published… Continue reading Age of Steam Hiatus
Month: October 2021
The Steam Revolution
[Part of a series: The Age of Steam] Up until the 1780s, steam engines were used almost exclusively for pumping water. To the extent that they drove industrial machinery, it was almost always indirectly, by lifting water uphill from whence it could run back down and turn a waterwheel. Industry thus remained dispersed in villages… Continue reading The Steam Revolution
Creatures of Thought 