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Our most likely exposure to a steam engine these days will probably come courtesy of a railway locomotive ... of a sleeve valve to run on compressed air. It’s not a steam engine because creating ...

Compressed air isn’t really a practical form of energy storage for headline uses like transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton] is plenty ...