A GREAT deal has been written on the steam-engine generally, but the author has not met with any connected record of the invention and construction of the first steam-engine—the atmospheric engine of ...

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AMONG the vast number of ingenious inventors whose work is the heritage of to-day, a prominent place must be accorded to Thomas Newcomen, who invented the atmospheric steam engine. Newcomen died in ...

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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 ...