Newcomen
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The court heard that Mr Ali of Dalwood Court, Hemlington and Mr Matthews of Newcomen Green, Middlesbrough, both 21, had a bought a Vauxhall Insignia the day before the incident.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2022
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
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
Only five years after Papin’s failure, Newcomen produced the first commercially viable steam engine.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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