I recreated Hero's aeolipile machine to see if this very first steam engine could be put to work. Could the industrial revolution started 2000 years earlier? My 2-year-old was being taken away in an ...

This pamphlet, “A Short Treastise on the Application of Steam,” was written by James Rumsey and published in 1788. Rumsey began his pamphlet by disputing John Fitch’s claim of inventing the first ...