Newcomen

[ noo-kuhm-uhn, nyoo- ]

noun

1. Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.

Newcomen

/ ˈnjuːˌkʌmən /

noun

1. NewcomenThomas16631729MEnglishTECHNOLOGY: engineer Thomas. 1663–1729, English engineer who invented a steam engine, which James Watt later modified and developed

Newcomen

/ no̅o̅′kə-mən /

1. English inventor who developed an early steam engine (1711) that was was widely used to pump water in coal mines.

Example Sentences

The steam pressure in the Newcomen atmospheric was continued unaltered in the Watt vacuum engine.

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Newcomen's engine had the interior, as well as the exterior of the steam-cylinder exposed to the cooling atmosphere.

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The cylinder was let down into the top of the boiler, and like Newcomen's atmospheric engine had no cylinder cover.

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This plan, as has been seen, was adopted by Smeaton, in constructing Newcomen engines a century ago.

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This engine, made by an Englishman named Newcomen, was very wasteful and was used only to pump water from mines.

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