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  2. Timeline of steam power - Wikipedia

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    Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 17th century, to useful pumps for mining in 1700, and then to Watt's improved steam engine designs in the late 18th century.

  3. Steam engine - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Savery is considered the inventor of the first commercially used steam powered device, a steam pump that used steam pressure operating directly on the water. The first commercially successful engine that could transmit continuous power to a machine was developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen .

  4. Steam power during the Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine. The first practical mechanical steam engine was introduced by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. Newcomen apparently conceived his machine independently of Savery, but as the latter had taken out a wide-ranging patent, Newcomen and his associates were obliged to come to an arrangement with him, marketing the engine until 1733 under a joint patent. [2]

  5. James Watt - Wikipedia

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    (Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by Francis Chantrey) James Watt FRS, FRSE (/ w ɒ t /; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) [a] was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native ...

  6. History of the steam engine - Wikipedia

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    The 1698 Savery Steam Pump - the first commercially successful steam powered device, built by Thomas Savery [1] The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile mentioned by Vitruvius between 30 and 15 BC and, described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt. [2]

  7. Thomas Savery - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Savery (/ ˈ s eɪ v ər i /; c. 1650 – 15 May 1715) was an English inventor and engineer. He invented the first commercially used steam-powered device, a steam pump [1] which is often referred to as the "Savery engine". Savery's steam pump was a revolutionary method of pumping water, which improved mine drainage and made widespread ...

  8. Watt steam engine - Wikipedia

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    Steam engines of this kind propelled the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and the world. The Watt steam engine design was an invention of James Watt that became synonymous with steam engines during the Industrial Revolution, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt design.

  9. Richard Trevithick - Wikipedia

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    According to his son Francis, Trevithick was the first to make high-pressure steam work in England in 1799, [11] although other sources say he had invented his first high-pressure engine by 1797. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Not only would a high-pressure steam engine eliminate the condenser, but it would allow the use of a smaller cylinder, saving space and ...