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Early steam engines of all kinds tended to explode spectacularly because they didn't have pressure release valves, that is why the bottom of the Mississippi River is littered with the remains of steam boats the blew up and burned. Engineers invented the pressure release valve that was used on all later steam engines and they quit blowing up, they were used for manufacturing and transportation for decades after that, in fact some of the early cars were also steam driven. Steam is still used all over the planet, the question is just what the power source is to create the steam: nuclear, coal, solar, geothermal, or oil.

Carol