Thomas Newcomen was an English ironmonger who built the first commercially successful steam engine in 1712, an atmospheric engine used to pump floodwater out of coal and tin mines. His design, though inefficient by later standards, remained in widespread use for pumping for most of the eighteenth century until James Watt's separate condenser dramatically improved on it.
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Built the first practical steam engine used for pumping.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954- Birth Year: 1664
- Death Year: 1729
- Nationality: English
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was an English inventor, creator of the atmospheric engine in 1712
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Thomas Newcomen (; February 1664-5 August 1729) was an English inventor, creator of the atmospheric engine in 1712, Baptist preacher by calling and ironmonger by trade.
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