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NEWCOMEN, Thomas (1663 - 1729)

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Ironmonger and british inventor of the first practical steam engine.

In 1712, Newcomen's engine began pumping water from a coal mine in Dudley, West Midlands, allowing the extraction of previously inaccessible coal. Once it became operational in September 1712, the design was quickly embraced by other mines. Newcomen's steam engine has been credited as being a key player in igniting the Industrial Revolution. By the time of his death, Newcomen and others had installed more than 100 of his engines, not only in the West Country and the Midlands but also in north Wales, near Newcastle and in Cumbria. Others were built elsewhere in Europe, including France, Belgium, Spain, and Hungary, also at Dannemora, Sweden. By 1725 the Newcomen engine was in common use in mining, particularly collieries. It held its place with little material change for the rest of the century.
   
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NEWCOMEN, Thomas
   
History  
* 1663 Dartmouth, Devon, Angleterre born
1698 The steam engine was an improvement over an earlier engine patented in 1698 by Thomas Savery, who later shared the patent with Newcomen.
1708 Dépôt de brevet avec Thomas Savery: moteur combinant un cylindre à vapeur et piston, une condensation de surface, une chaudière séparée et des pompes séparées.
1712 He built his atmospheric steam engine, a precursor of James Watt's engine : In the Newcomen engine - atmospheric pressure pushed the piston down after the condensation of steam had created a vacuum in the cylinder.
† 05.08.1729 Londres died
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Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780
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