At the dawn of the twentieth century, the ultimate victory of the gasoline-powered automobile was far from guaranteed. The automotive landscape was an open, hyper-competitive frontier where three ...

There’s a popular meme that makes the rounds whenever a scientific breakthrough in power generation is announced. In it, a ...

Nicholas Petris, born to Greek immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1923, could remember a time when electric trucks were a common sight on the streets of Oakland. In fact, just a couple of ...

Once upon a time, the steam engine reigned supreme -- first in trains and heavy tractors, as you well know, but eventually in cars as well. It's quite hard to fathom today, but at the turn of the 20th ...

A LITTLE while ago we looked over a new Empire steam car and were astonished, on arriving chez lui, to find a large and beautiful machine, resembling a slightly over-nourished Rolls-Royce. It had a ...