The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...

Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712. These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used ...

Fifty years before James Watt came on the scene Thomas Newcomen built practical steam engines to pump water out of mines. What is known of these engines and how did they influence later ones?

Before this weaving was cottage industry but the steam engines developed by Newcomen and Watt drove the industrial revolution forward. People were no longer the providers of energy and could now ...