Otto Langen News Today

Coolspring Power Museum has grown into a world class collection of gas engines — 75% of which operate in their displays — spanning 35 buildings on 40 acres.

Here in the early decades of the twenty-first century, steam turbines can still be found (though they are almost never seen) but steam piston engines are archaic relics. Nearly every moving machine that we see—cars, trucks, lawnmowers, the aircraft in the sky and the boats in the water—derives its power directly from the combustion of…