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
That was done by Thomas Newcomen, who stumbled across cold-water injection.
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
And yet, like Newcomen, their innovations are so much more useful to the people who actually have copious amounts of raw material to work from.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2016
One scholar has boldly, and against all the evidence, claimed that Newcomen was simply an employee of Savery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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