Newcomen
Americannoun
noun
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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
That was done by Thomas Newcomen, who stumbled across cold-water injection.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018
A Devonian ironmonger, Newcomen built his device to pump water out of the south west’s prolific tin mines.
From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2016
It is true that knowledge of air pressure was widespread by 1712, and any explanation of the workings of a barometer would have conveyed to Newcomen the discoveries of Torricelli and Pascal.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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