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Steam engine
Heat becomes motion
Where the story starts
Build the real thing
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Wilesco live-steam engine
Buy a small live-steam engine and run it together. A fuel tablet boils water in the boiler, and the steam pushes a piston that spins the flywheel.
- Wilesco
- Cost
- $$$ · Over $100
- Time
- One session
- Screens
- No screen needed
For the grown-up
Live steam and hot metal burn, and the engine stays hot after the flame goes out. A grown-up lights the burner and stays at the table, it runs on a heat-proof tray in a ventilated room, and the fuel tablets stay out of kids' reach.
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