The Age of Steam

This page provides a single entry point to all the posts in the story of the steam engine.

1. Introduction
2. The Weight of the Air
3. The Pumping Engine
4. The Triumvirate: Coal, Iron, and Steam
5. James Watt, Instrument Maker
6. The Steam Revolution
7. The Steamboat Inventors: The First Generation
8. The Steamboat Inventors: The Second Generation
9. High Pressure, Part I: The Western Steamboat
10. High Pressure, Part II: The First Steam Railway
11. The Rail Revolution