Newcomen
Americannoun
noun
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Marta Bednarczyk, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene on Newcomen Road in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, at about 03:30 GMT on 10 March.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
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
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
But it is worth knowing that only a few years ago an attempt to build a one-third-scale replica Newcomen engine ran into a great deal of difficulty.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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