Steam Engines and Transport Innovators
Patented: History of Inventions
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The History of Steam Engines
I'm always amazed and I always have to remind myself that when we think about nuclear power, which we mentioned, it's still just steam energy. And they're just big cattle's nuclear power stations. Yeah. One of my favourite pauses in your story was this idea of a sort of vacuum railway,. A pressurized tube whereby you would suck out all the air and you would have a train that would run between these two points. The Victorians had this idea of an atmospheric railway. They actually built one under London and squirted some poor businessman down it. It went 100 yards underground or whatever. You whizzed down this thing propelled by an engine in a tube, which was partly
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