Newcomen
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
The Newcomen engine pumped water from British coal mines for more than 200 years.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018
"The sweeping whole-system reform envisaged has yet to be delivered," writes Prison and Probation Ombudsman Nigel Newcomen in his bulletin on female prison suicide this week.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2017
Nick Newcomen went a little further than most, spending a month driving more than 12,000 miles to inscribe his message – "Read Ayn Rand" – on a vast swath of US land.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2010
Desaguliers and a friend later built models of both the Savery and the Newcomen engines: despite his extraordinary expertise, Desaguliers was plainly taken aback to see the Savery engine outperform the Newcomen engine.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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