![]() ![]() I believe no ingenious person will deny this engine to have the preference in all respects, being of more universal use than any yet discovered or invented.Įarly steam engines featured a round boiler that burned coal to generate steam. In his 1702 pamphlet, The Miner’s Friend, Savery speculated that the new device might have wide applications: The engine was, nevertheless, a marked improvement on the ‘engine to raise water by fire’ invented by Thomas Savery, whose pioneering work – overshadowed by his more famous successors Newcomen, Matthew Boulton and James Watt – is little recognised today. Fed by coal, belching smoke and steam, the amazing machine seemed likely to explode at any moment, as indeed many of its predecessors had – the steam engine being at that stage of its development an imperfect design. It must have struck local peasants as a rather dangerous contraption. ![]() In 1712, a Englishman named Thomas Newcomen built a most unusual ‘engyn’ on the estates of Lord Dudley, a Staffordshire grandee. ![]()
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