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 atmospheric ...

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 ...

THE steam engine was one of the greatest inventions of the 18th century, establishing Britain as the leader of the Industrial Revolution. Although many are credited with aiding the development of the ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — For all but one of the past 71 years, the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion has been a celebration of human invention and innovation, but absent from the event has been representation of ...

It was in the heart of the Black Country that the world's first successful steam engine was born which would help to power Britain and transform the nation. It was in the heart of the Black Country ...

As is fully recognised to-day, it was the invention of the atmospheric steam pumping engine by New-comen that saved many mines from closing down and provided for the first time an engine capable of ...

Have you ever wondered why we still measure an engine's output in horsepower? It all started as clever marketing, but the term never went away.

The engine was originally put on the English Heritage at-risk register in 2010 A £400,000 grant has been made to restore a listed engine in South Yorkshire. The Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar has ...

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 ...