For my capstone project, I decided to study the steam engine. To determine which technology to study, I researched many different options on EBSCO host. While researching this database, I found a very interesting article, “The Power of the Past” by Jean Thilmany, which was published in the Sept 2009 edition of Mechanical Engineering Magazine. In this article, Thilmany discusses how even though most people think of it as old and out of date, the steam engine is still being studied and improved upon. The article also talks about how lost to time or neglect exist only in inventors' notebooks. Gould said, “We're not trying to create new objects. Mostly, we're taking systems already designed and proven 150 years ago, and beautifying them a little." The fact that this technology has been around for so long and is still being improved upon is what made me choose the steam engine for my project.