In 1764 Watt, an instrument maker at Glasgow University, was asked to repair a working model of Newcomen’s engine. As he did so he saw it wasted steam because its cylinder had to be alternately ...

Inventor Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) designed the world's first successful atmospheric steam engine. His invention earned him a place as one of the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution.

An atmospheric steam engine built for Caprington Colliery, Ayshire, in 1811 to a design developed by Thomas Newcomen a century earlier. This was less efficient than James Watt's steam engine, but ...

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 ...

History proclaims that James Watt’s reinvention of the (Thomas) Newcomen steam engine with Matthew Boulton launched the Industrial Revolution and transformed the world. But history politely ...

1664: Thomas Newcomen, creator of the first practical atmospheric steam engine, is born in Devon, England. Newcomen’s exact birth date is a matter of debate. Some sources say “before Feb. 24 ...

In a third sample from the Hunterian Museum Poems, Jim Carruth looks at the engine which inspired the young James Watt and helped precipitate the Industrial Revolution; while, below, Hamish Whyte ...

In 1763, Scottish inventor James Watt was given a steam engine to repair. Developed by Thomas Newcomen, it would turn water into steam to run a water pump. The Newcomen pump used the same chamber for ...

In Europe, steam power evolved gradually and uncertainly over the course of the eighteenth century, with innovative peaks and long plateaus, from Thomas Savery’s steam pump (1698) via Thomas ...

Newcomen's achievement featured in a recent set of Royal Mail commemorative stamps A replica of the world's first steam engine has been unveiled in the West Midlands to mark the 300th anniversary ...

In 1763, Scottish inventor James Watt was given a steam engine to repair. Developed by Thomas Newcomen, it would turn water into steam to run a water pump. The Newcomen pump used the same chamber for ...