You neglected to mention the Stanley speed car, which set the record broken by the Inspiration, back in 1906: the Stanley was the first car to exceed 120 mph. According to some accounts, they tried again the following year: the driver, Fred Marriott, claimed that he had reached 197 mph, and was still apparently accelerating, when the car hit a bump, became airborne, and crashed. Miraculously, Marriott survived the disaster.

You…really didn’t research any of these…

Why does everything powered by steam look so cool?

Regarding the comments on the K Class subs. They did NOT see the end of steam engined submarines. In fact most of todays large submarines are steam powered. The resurgence started in the 1950s when the coil/oil burners were replaced by nuclear reactors. With very few exceptions, nuclear power plants are no more than glorified steam plants.

Considering what’s going on in cars today, we might be driving steam powered cars and trucks again, real soon!

The centipede was actually a diesel locomotive based on an F unit that was made from two car bodies that was powered by diesel electric engines

??? The fowler Ghost was a fire brick Steam locomotive. the issue with the Fowler Ghost was the fact if the boiler ever ran low on water there was no way to drop the fire preventing a crown sheet failure and a boiler explosion. Their contribution is literally they're the first locomotives for the London Underground soon replaced by regular traditional tank engines until Electric locomotives were able to take their place.

Ever hear of steam elevator? These were in use in the late 19th century. Steam elevators had a steam engine usually in a different part of the building that was linked by a train of apparats to transmit power to the elevator's machinery, usually consisting of a drum on which wrapped the hoisting cables that moved the elevator car up and down. The elevator driver would use control ropes in the car to raise, lower, or stop the car. The steam engine had to be constantly running for the elevator to work. It took about a half an hour to fire up the steam engine in the morning in order to have service. A modern electric elevator's motor stops when the car is at the desired floor, much more efficient.

Fowlers ghost was a 1 of 1 locomotive, the plan was to make a locomotive to work underground in the British tunnels. It turned out as a poor steamer and one incident nearly caused it to explode in a station when the water ran out. This being die to its boiler design. As it not only had a firebox for conventional use, it had firebricks lining the boiler to retain heat to keep creating steam after the fire was dropped for traveling in the underground the issue was that despite the fire being out the bricks cant be removed from the boiler, thus it nearly exploded from lack of water and continued heating from the bricks. After that it was deemed a failure and taken out of service, with its builder allegedly denying the engine ever existing. Am interesting locomotive plagued with bad luck and poor design…

Well the Fowler's ghost story is completely wrong, it was an experimental brick fired loco to reduce smoke in the underground tunnels of London. It failed though, and was promptly scrapped. No idea what the loco is you lot are on about that is sleek and whatever, but sounds like a US loco rather than a UK one

Some truly strange vehicles but you go with the best available technology at the time. I admire their imagination. 😊

That is a leading link front forks...the sprung link is in front of the pivot

Very informative video 📹 I really appreciate your efforts 👌

Very nice good great job. Thanks.

What impress me thw most with the centiped locomotive is the use of a standard diesel electric shape, thats unusual for a steam train

steam helicopter - but it's not April Fool's Day - interesting what people will believe

The DG8 Steam Wagon is basically a Shay but as a car. Insane.

The Black Pearl, huh? “What are you doin’?” “No, what ARRRGH ya doin’?” 😄😄

Josh where can I find the background music of this video ? sounds very nice !

15 mph is very close to what my 97 Grand Prix gt gets.

The black pearl is insane!

There was a steam motorcycle in the window of the Sutro baths museum in San Francisco. It burned down in 1967. You had a boiler between your legs, wild.

Insane motorcycle.

Nice video, steam propulsion is still alive and well in subs however, nuclear power is basically just steam, usually a turbine, with a nuclear boiler so is the motive force in nuclear powered ships, subs and power stations.

19:59 That is the Baldwin Centipede. A diesel locomotive with the wheel configuration of a Big Boy (4,8,8,4). And this was build around the time diesels took over the american railnet. Alco tried to make diesels. And Balwind ignored it until they no longer could. The Centipede was one of their attemps to compete with EMD and GE. And it was a fail. Mainly because Baldwin did not know what they where doing.

I wish I could like this twice.

3:54 None of the Michelin Railcars were steam-powered, not even the 1932 prototype. A mere look at the exhausts and it's obvious this is a diesel engine (Junkers). Where did you get your info ?

Re the Steam Man= some few years ago, there was a steampunk book made about the imaginary adventures of Boilerplate, a steam robot.

"An astounding record breaking speed of 148 MPH?" For such a gigantically HUGE engineering piece? Well that proves once and for all that Steam is VERY, VERY inefficient for such purposes.

You had a shot from the Soviet WW2 k-class diesel sub in the film!

Fowler's ghost was actually a failure at a steam locomotive that could run subways without killing everyone with smoke inhalation, what happened is that it's fire box collapsed. And fowler's ghost wasn't streamlined, it did not pull express trains. And the centapede was a locomotive run by an internal combustion engine, not a steam engine. Also the drive system of jay leno's fire truck is run on internal combuation, the only thing steam powered was the water pump.

Where the hell did you get this info? some of these Vehicles were never powered by steam for god sake!

I've worked on a Beyer-Garret restoration.

Most of the images in this video have nothing to do with the subject matter. The Beyer-Garrett segment being one exception.

Very interesting

Toronto's subway uses pneumatic tires.

WHEN ON EARTH HAS A STANDARD GAUGE GARRATT BEEN USED ON THE WELSH RAILWAYS!??!? ARE YOU MAD?!

Amazing video keep up the amazing work!

Wow that was a lot of wrong or incorrect information in this video. Check your facts please.

The Sentinel DG8 had a flat four double acting engine not a vertical 3

And yes Thomas you're right the centipede was a diesel electric, and the so-called steam helicopter was a bunch of BS

The Bessemer centipede was BASICALLY A PROTOTYPE FOR THE BIG BOY

7:08 Soviet Volga GAZ24

Save that the Michelines were not steam powered, you can see the radiator grille and the external silencers ffs!

👍🙂 MANTAP' TARMAC, Engine Steem

I honestly thought the thumbnail was some photoshopped clickbait not a real creation, amazing.

The Sentinel DG8 had a duplex (twin cylinder) double acting engine mounted in line with the chassis. It's successor, the Sentinel 'S' had a four cylinder single acting engine mounted across the chassis.

It is a shame Bill Bessler's steam-powered airplane receives but a mention while an imaginary steam helicopter makes the list. There is another big misconception in this video: What Walter Christie made for fire departments was a conversion unit for horse-drawn steam pumpers they already possessed. It actually used an internal combustion engine to drive the front wheels.

Aww man, you changed the thumbnail, lol. Because that yellow lowrider car looks very futuristic. 😅

😅😮😅😅😅😅😅well information good show 😅

The Inspiration is also the fastest Steam-Powered Vehicle in the World, beating the Mallard's 124 MPH in the 30s.

Rubber tires are never used on trains because they would be shredded that’s why steam locomotives use steel tires

The Black Pearl is built to European specifications, wherein anything not faster than 6 Km/h does not require a registration or driver's license, where I suspect it was more to avoid the homologation as street worthy vehicle that made them opt for that low speed.

Mate, The Centipede Locomotive Is Diesel. Not Steam

Beyer-Garrets had two sets of pistons and driving wheels, but only one boiler. The driving units were laden with water tanks, with the rear unit, next to the cab, carrying the coal bunker. Just check your facts before you write your scripts.

If diesel power was never discovered

Not sure why but i've a feeling that the narrator in this video somehow same voice like the person on Simple History 🤣

The 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement is correct

Maybe steam could make a resurgence in the 21st century with electric steem powered cars with the emergence of heat pumps and lithium batteries at some point in the 2050s to 2100s

0:54 the front looks like a train

I wonder why you haven’t included the first steam powered aircraft, which flew in England in 1894. See a post by ‘History Debunked’ titled ‘How a steam-powered aeroplane took to the air in England in 1894; long before the Wright brothers’

Me looking at the thumbnail The first word that appears in my mind: steambike

frankly steam is scary, I have been burned by both gas and steam and steam is by far the more painful kind of burn!.

I don't understand the issues with the British K class subs. My ship in the US Navy today is propelled by two GTM's that only have two speeds that rotate the shafts. The actual speed with which the ship moves is governed only by the pitch of the blades. So the shafts could be spinning and the ship would go nowhere with the blades of the screws at zero pitch. In fact, you could replace the diesel power plants in my ship with steam engines right now and it would work in the same exact way. The officers of the ship would never know the difference during maneuvering.

How peculiar ...!...was the evolution of..... technology..!!!

I seen four steam power motorcycle

Mantaaf ok

@ 6:12 I'm a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona And such a fine sight to see It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to take a look at me.

Hey thats kurnagets voice

The steam motorcycle pictured at the first of the video is actually powered by compressed air, However a British gentleman built a coal fired steam motorcycle named ‘Jenny’, a Garrett locomotive has a central cab & boiler. Just a couple of inaccuracies….

The Black Pearl is not strampowered, its powered by compressed Air.

Did he seriously just call the whistle a steam horn? 1:29

Maybe one day steam traction could make a comeback if oil and gasoline goes kaput

Katsuhiro otomo' s Worlds.

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I BOUGHT INTO THIS UNTILL THE STEAM MAN LOLOLOL TAKE YOUR STEAM AND SHOVE IT

Remember what they took from us.

STEAM PUNK baby!!!!

Very big part of romanticizing steam engines is how they sound like but now the only thing to hear about was the speaking of the speaker 🤨

Es mejor la levitación que eso. Tino de Reynosa.

Could a steam engine be used to recharge the battery on a EV steam hybrid vehicle?

Uhh... you got pretty much everything wrong about Henry Fowler's Ghost. If you continue to do videos on steam traction consult an expert or don't bloody bother because your coverage of this locomotive was abysmal. 1. The nickname is "Fowler's Ghost", it never had a name as it was an experimental engine. 2. The engine was not at all streamlined, the only reason it was "streamlined" is for aesthetic purposes and that was common of the period when locomotives were made. 3. The locomotive was not "enclosed", It probably has boiler cladding and lagging like pretty much every steam locomotive ever and it had an open cab so you're not gonna pull a fast one on me, lots of locomotives from that period were open-cab because driver comfort wasn't considered for most locomotives. 4. WHERE ON EARTH IS THIS COW-CATCHER?!? OUR LOCOMOTIVES RARELY EMPLOYED THE USE OF A COW-CATCHER! IF YOU'RE MISTAKING THE COUPLING CHAIN FOR A COW CATCHER GO TO SPECSAVERS PLEASE FOR YOUR HEALTH'S SAKE! 5. How does this locomotive look Ghastly? It more resembles The Crampton Locomotives that were popular of the time, the nickname has nothing to do with the appearance. 6.This "Stream-Lining" nonsense was never on the locomotive (refer to point 2) and the concept of stream-lining wouldn't become used on steam locomotives for another 70+ years. 7. EXPRESS PASSENGER TRAINS?!?!? WHAT!??!??! IT WAS DESIGNED SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE CHIMNEY TO PREVENT EVERYONE ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND FROM CHOKING TO DEATH! HENCE THE NAME "FOWLER'S GHOST" 8. There have been no reports on passengers finding it's appearance unsettling... where are you finding this information? you're making it all up aren't you! 9. YOU THINK FOWLERS GHOST, A VICTORIAN 2-4-0 LOCOMOTIVE DESIGNED FOR THE UNDERGROUND THAT WAS MADE TO EXPERIMENT WITH HEAT TRANSFER METHODS COULD LAST UNTIL THE 1960'S WHERE 3/4 CYLINDER EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVES WERE THE MAINSTAYS OF EXPRESS PASSENGER WORKINGS, THIS LOCO COULDN'T GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH A GREAT WESTERN CASTLE LET ALONE A GREAT WESTERN AUTO-TANK! IT HAD ISSUES STEAMING AND NEARLY BLEW UP ON IT'S TRIALS BEFORE BEING BOUGHT AND EVENTUALLY SCRAPPED BEFORE IT COULD BECOME A CONVENTIONAL WORKING ENGINE/ 10. SURVIVING EXAMPLE S?!?!?! THERE WAS ONE BUILT AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS. 11. THAT PHOTOGRAPH IS A THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE FAN CREATION OF THE GHOST NOT THE REAL THING! WE ONLY HAD ONE PHOTO TO GO FROM AND YOU'VE BEEN USING OTHER STOCK FOOTAGE OF STEAM ENGINES AND I FEEL RATHER INSULTED YOU WOULD ASOCCIATE THE GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY WITH THIS MESS OF A VIDEO! YOU SHOULDN'T BE MAKING VIDEOS WITH THIS POOR ACCURACY FOR INFORMATION, YOU SHOULD QUIT KZfaq BECAUSE THIS IS APPAULING!

It would be nice if you asked to use my footage.

10:31 Fowler's ghost vid reappears! XD

Case tractor made a world biggest steam power tractor

I miss the sound of Now ai is talking to much

steam locomotives.... how strange indeed.....what were they thinking??

Modern nuclear submarines are technically steam powered.

The narrator of this video sounds oddly familiar.... im totally not incognito either...

Those are gyrocopters, not helicopters

Nuclear Subs are powered by Steam ...

Narator terlalu berisik, saya tidak bisa mendengar suara mesinnya. Anda berbicara terus menerus tanpa henti.

ok

if we move for better climate then steem power better

And Jay Leno does not own the fire truck

Steam your seafood 🦞 while you drive

No.15 might burn your body..

Steam punk bike

Without the oil company's this world would have been beautiful

Iglis cment is hindi tranletion plis👋