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2. History of the steam engine - Wikipedia

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   He was a pioneer of cylindrical boilers; however, Evans' boilers did suffer several serious boiler explosions, which tended to lend weight to Watt's qualms. He founded the Pittsburgh Steam Engine Company in 1811 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [43] The company introduced high-pressure steam engines to the riverboat trade in the Mississippi watershed.

3. Timeline of steam power - Wikipedia

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   1881 (): Alexander C. Kirk obtained the necessary high pressure boilers for the first practical installation of a triple expansion marine engine in SS Aberdeen. [21]: 106–111 1884 (): Charles Algernon Parsons develops the steam turbine. Used early on in electrical generation and to power ships, turbines were bladed wheels that created rotary ...

4. Boiler (power generation) - Wikipedia

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   For the first Newcomen engine of 1712, the boiler was little more than large brewer's kettle installed beneath the power cylinder. Because the engine's power was derived from the vacuum produced by condensation of the steam, the requirement was for large volumes of steam at very low pressure hardly more than 1 psi (6.9 kPa ).

5. Safety valve - Wikipedia

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   An oxygen safety relief valve DN250-safety valves. A safety valve is a valve that acts as a fail-safe.An example of safety valve is a pressure relief valve (PRV), which automatically releases a substance from a boiler, pressure vessel, or other system, when the pressure or temperature exceeds preset limits.

6. 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]

7. Steam engine - Wikipedia

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   The engine used two heavy pistons to provide motion to a water pump. Each piston was raised by the steam pressure and returned to its original position by gravity. The two pistons shared a common four-way rotary valve connected directly to a steam boiler. Early Watt pumping engine