One of the first practical cars ever invented, Benz's Motorwagen, took its first public drive in Mannheim, Germany, in 1886. Steam had been a viable power source in locomotion for as much as a ...

Who made the first cars? Beginning in the 1770s, many people tried to make cars that would run on steam. Some early steam cars worked well, and some did not. Some were fire pumpers that moved by ...

The world's oldest winding steam engine of its type is going to be running for the first time in decades to ... using compressed air to power the cylinders, instead of steam.