Reporting from Newport News, Va. — When archaeologists and Navy divers recovered the warship Monitor’s steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was ...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP) -- When Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists recovered the USS Monitor steam engine from the Atlantic in 2001, the pioneering Civil War propulsion unit was enshrouded in a thick ...

The steam engine from the warship Monitor was brought to the surface last week, 138 years after the celebrated Union ironclad went down in a storm. Civil War Ship's Engine Recovered From Ocean ...

Almost 150 years later, conservators are getting the first up-close look at the sunken USS Monitor's 30-ton steam engine, an engineering wonder of its day, and the mighty heart of a ship that ...

We'll use the basic chassis design of the Fawkes steam plow, and on that we'll mount a small timber-and-iron hull, angled like a casemate, and designed to house the driver and a stoker for the ...

It was part firearm, part steam engine, which gave it a menacing appearance. It was also the largest land-based weapon to be fielded until the First World War’s tanks rolled onto the battlefield.

Put into regular service after the Civil War, the Texas was moved to Grant Park in 1911. It has been inside the Cyclorama building since 1927. That building also famously holds the panoramic ...

Put into regular service after the Civil War, the Texas was moved to Grant Park in 1911. It has been inside the Cyclorama building since 1927. That building also famously holds the panoramic ...