The steam engine stands as one of the most transformative inventions in human history. It didn’t just change industries—it ...

Luckily for European mine owners, in 1711 another Englishman, Thomas Newcomen, developed a better way to pump water from mines. His system used a redesigned steam engine that eliminated the need ...

You are in: Devon > History > Famous Devonians > Newcomen's steam revolution Thomas Newcomen's Atmospheric Engine Inventor Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) designed the world's first successful ...

(Lucky for the wall, the trolley's top speed is only 2 mph.) Scottish engineer James Watt improves on Thomas Newcomen's engine design—which uses atmospheric pressure to help drive a piston—by ...

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 ...

The technology was improved with pistons and cylinders by Thomas Newcomen, a blacksmith, and again by Watt in the mid-18th century. By that time, the speedy engine's reputation was gaining steam ...

Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712.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

Thomas Newcomen, who lived from 1664 to 1729, created the atmospheric engine, the first practical fuel-burning engine in 1712. Now the world’s oldest steam engine still where originally built ...

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?

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 ...

Pioneers like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt created ever-improving ... Railroads began crisscrossing the countryside, steam engine trains pulling loads of people and goods. Ultimately, people ...

But Savery's engine could only draw water from shallow mines, and was therefore not too useful when miners started digging deeper. In 1712, another Englishman, Thomas Newcomen, came to the rescue ...