Steam engines haven't been the primary method of travel for decades, but the technology and its modern applications continue ...

The new car requires only a few seconds longer than it takes to start a modern gas car to get up enough steam to start. It has no gear shift, being governed entirely by the throttle and the brake.

At one point, his inventions became so popular that they were equipped in steam cars and even buses ... and Livion Dante Porta propelled the modern steam locomotives in the late 1940s and ...