Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption, The Newcomen steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The engine was commonly found in coal ...

The Industrial ... steam engine trains pulling loads of people and goods. Ultimately, people wondered what would happen if they affixed one of these newfangled contraptions to personalized vehicles.

Think about how mind-shattering it would have been to see something like Hero’s Engine, the first known example of a steam turbine ... t kick off the industrial revolution two millennia early ...