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Steam injection (petroleum)
Steam injection is an enhanced oil recovery method that heats heavy oil reservoirs with steam, cutting viscosity so oil can flow; main schemes include CSS, steam drive, and SAGD.
Steam iron
A steam iron is a hand-held electric clothes iron that heats water in a built-in reservoir and delivers steam through holes in its soleplate, softening fibers to remove wrinkles.
Steam Link
Steam Link: Valve's game-streaming technology, launched as a $50 set-top box on 10 November 2015 and discontinued in 2018, now a free app for Android, iOS, Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, Fire TV, and Meta Quest using Steam Remote Play.
Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a self-propelled railway engine that burns fuel to boil water and drive pistons, the dominant form of railway traction for about 150 years.
Steam locomotives of British Railways
The steam locomotives of British Railways, operated from nationalisation on 1 January 1948 to August 1968, mixed engines inherited from the Big Four companies with Riddles' twelve BR Standard classes.
Steam locomotives of China Railway
The steam locomotives of China Railway were dominated by the QJ, JS, and SY classes, with the last regular steam service ending at Sandaoling coal mine in January 2024.
Steam locomotives of Imperial Russia
The steam locomotives of Imperial Russia were letter-designated classes, such as O, Shch, and E, built for the empire's 1,524 mm gauge railways from the 1870s to 1917.
Steam locomotives of Taiwan
The steam locomotives of Taiwan were Japanese-derived classes, including the CT150 and DT650, operated by the TRA until regular steam ended in the early 1980s.
Steam locomotives of the Argentine broad and metre gauge
Steam locomotives of the Argentine broad and meter gauge ran on 5 ft 6 in and 1,000 mm networks; in 1939 a Pacific averaged 65.4 mph over 188 miles.
Steam Machine
The Steam Machine is a small-form-factor gaming PC made by Valve that runs SteamOS, with a first generation from third-party makers in 2015 and a 2026 second generation.
Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
Steam power in the Industrial Revolution: Newcomen's 1712 atmospheric engine, Watt's 1769 separate condenser, slow diffusion from mining to manufacturing, and revised estimates of steam's economic contribution in Britain.
Steam Powered Giraffe
Steam Powered Giraffe is a San Diego theatrical music project formed in 2008 by twins David and Bunny Bennett, performing as Victorian-era robots built in 1896 by fictional inventor Peter A. Walter, with albums from Album One (2009) to Music from SteamWorld Heist II (2024).
Steam railcar
A steam railcar, or steam-powered railcar, is a self-propelled passenger coach carrying its own steam engine and boiler, an ancestor of the diesel multiple unit used on branch lines from around 1900.
Steam reforming
Steam reforming, also known as steam methane reforming, is an industrial catalytic process in which methane reacts with high-temperature steam to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
Steam trap
A steam trap is an automatic valve that drains condensate from steam lines and equipment while blocking live steam and venting air, using thermostatic, mechanical, or thermodynamic designs.
Steam turbine
A steam turbine, also called the Parsons turbine, converts thermal energy of pressurized steam into rotational mechanical energy; Charles Parsons built the first modern multi-stage design in 1884.
Steam turbine locomotive
A steam turbine locomotive converts boiler steam into traction through a rotary turbine rather than cylinders, experimented with from 1918 through the 1950s in Sweden, Germany, Britain, and the United States.
Steam-assisted gravity drainage
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is an enhanced oil recovery method that uses two horizontal wells to recover heavy oil and bitumen, widely used in Alberta's oil sands.
Steam-generating heavy water reactor
The steam-generating heavy water reactor (SGHWR) is a nuclear reactor design in which pressure tubes of enriched uranium fuel and boiling light water coolant pass through a heavy water moderator.
Steam–diesel hybrid locomotives
A steam–diesel hybrid locomotive combines a steam plant and an internal-combustion engine in one machine. The best known is the Kitson–Still, tested by the LNER from 1928.
Steamboat
A steamboat is a boat propelled by a steam engine, usually with paddle wheels; it dominated river transport in North America and Britain in the nineteenth century.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is Buster Keaton's 1928 silent comedy, his last independent film, about a collegian and his riverboat-captain father, famous for the cyclone sequence and falling house-facade stunt, released 12 May 1928 and in US public domain since 1956.
Steamboat Geyser
Steamboat Geyser, in Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone, is the world's tallest active geyser, with major eruptions over 91 m, intervals of 3 days to 50 years, and active phases in the 1960s, 1980s, and since 2018.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Steamboat Springs is a home rule city in Routt County, Colorado, founded in the late 1880s by James Crawford, known for mineral springs, Steamboat Ski Resort, and a severe workforce housing shortage.
Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Willie is the 1928 Walt Disney animated short, animated by Ub Iwerks, that premiered November 18, 1928 as the first released Mickey Mouse cartoon with synchronized sound, and entered the US public domain on January 1, 2024.
Steamboy (スチームボーイ)
Steamboy (スチームボーイ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's 2004 steampunk anime film about young inventor Ray Steam and the Steam Ball; Sunrise production, $22 million budget, most expensive Japanese anime at the time.
SteamOS
SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system developed by Valve that runs the Steam gaming platform on dedicated gaming hardware, most prominently the Steam Deck handheld, released in 2022.
Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced steam and clockwork technology in Victorian or Wild West settings, coined by K. W. Jeter in 1987.
Steamship
A steamship is a ship propelled by a steam engine or turbine rather than sails, displacing sail in commercial shipping almost entirely by the early twentieth century.
SteamWorld Heist
SteamWorld Heist is a 2015 turn-based tactics game by Image & Form (SteamWorld series) in which robot pirates led by Captain Piper Faraday board ships; manual aiming and ricochet bullets distinguish it from XCOM-style dice-roll combat.