Newcomen

American  

[noo-kuhm-uhn, nyoo-] / nuˈkʌm ən, nyu- /

noun

1. Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.

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Newcomen British  

/ ˈnjuːˌkʌmən /

noun

1. Thomas. 1663–1729, English engineer who invented a steam engine, which James Watt later modified and developed

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Newcomen Scientific  

/ no̅o̅′kə-mən /

1. English inventor who developed an early steam engine (1711) that was was widely used to pump water in coal mines.

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Example Sentences

By 1800 Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen had invented, and James Watt and Matthew Boulton had refined, the steam engine.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2020

That was done by Thomas Newcomen, who stumbled across cold-water injection.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

Not coal today, though, but Fcoal in the early days of the 18th century, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2016

"He was the engineer who first made a steam engine that could be used in industry, and therefore in commerce," explained the Newcomen Society's Michael Bailey.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2012

Where Newcomen had put two and two together to make the steam engine, Desaguliers, in order to explain its working, has taken them apart again, reinventing Papin’s atmospheric wind-gun.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton