One of these engines is known as the Newcomen engine, which was first invented all the way back in 1712 by its namesake, ...

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?

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 ...

Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712.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 ...