Hard Work Smart History

The phrase “Don’t work hard, work smart” is a code that everyone who has ever done something the hard way knows all too well. In our everyday lives, we encounter different uses for engines that have improved our lives and jobs over the years. It can be as simple as the engine in our car or the planes that we take to see family but the list of uses that we have for engines is endless. The three main engines that have advanced humanity over the years are the Steam Engine, the Internal Combustion Engine, and the Jet or Turbine Engine. Each one has played a very important part in shaping the history of the world and helping us to utilize every tool and machine that makes us work smarter and faster. The beginning of the transition from hard labor to labor based around machines that do difficult jobs for easily started with the

Records of the earliest use steam engines have been dated back to around the 1st century AD when a man by the name of The Hero of Alexandria talked about his invention of the aeolipile. His invention functioned like a turbine engine where steam was blown through a turbine and created torque as it traveled out the turbine. Over the centuries that followed, the steam engine became increasingly more resourceful and in 1712, Thomas Newcomen developed the very first commercially used piston steam engine which produced an output of 5 horsepower. The invention of the first lightweight, high pressure steam engine made their use in transportation flourish as they were used in locomotives, road vehicles, ships, and steamboats throughout the 19th Century. Steam engines also powered factories, pumping stations, and even in some cases were used to power tractors or motorcycles. As the 19th Century went on, the steam engine soon began to be replaced by a new type of engine, the internal combustion engine, which saw its rise about the same time as the steam