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Newcomen
[ noo-kuhm-uhn, nyoo- ]
noun
- Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.
Newcomen
/ ˈnjuːˌkʌmən /
noun
- NewcomenThomas16631729MEnglishTECHNOLOGY: engineer Thomas. 1663–1729, English engineer who invented a steam engine, which James Watt later modified and developed
Newcomen
/ no̅o̅′kə-mən /
- English inventor who developed an early steam engine (1711) that was was widely used to pump water in coal mines.
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The steam pressure in the Newcomen atmospheric was continued unaltered in the Watt vacuum engine.
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Newcomen's engine had the interior, as well as the exterior of the steam-cylinder exposed to the cooling atmosphere.
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The cylinder was let down into the top of the boiler, and like Newcomen's atmospheric engine had no cylinder cover.
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This plan, as has been seen, was adopted by Smeaton, in constructing Newcomen engines a century ago.
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This engine, made by an Englishman named Newcomen, was very wasteful and was used only to pump water from mines.
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