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 ...

The South West changed the world by inventing, what some people believe was, the first real steam engine. Thomas Newcomen, a ...

The life of Matthew Boulton, the Midland inventor who popularised the steam engine and modern copper coins, will be the ...

A college lecturer who controversially claimed the first working Newcomen steam engine was sited in Wolverhampton and not Dudley has inched closer to rewriting the history books after getting his ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...