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NEWCOMEN, THOMAS (1663-1729)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 475 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NEWCOMEN, THOMAS (1663-1729) ,
English
  engineer, one of the inventors of the steam-
engine
 , was born at
Dartmouth
  in 1663. While employed as an ironmonger in his native town, he corresponded with Robert Hooke about the previous investigations of Denis
Papin
  and the marquis of Worcester as to the applicability of steam-
power
  for the purpose of
driving
  machinery, and in conjunction with John Calley (or Cawley), said to have been a grazier or glazier in
Dartmouth
 , and Captain
Thomas
  Savery (165o ?-1715), a military engineer, he constructed in 1705 a " fire-
engine
 ," now known as the " atmospheric steam-engine." He died in 1729, probably in London. (See STEAM-ENGINE.)


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