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Newcomen

American

[noo-kuhm-uhn, nyoo-] / nuˈkʌm ən, nyu- /

noun

Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.

Newcomen British

/ ˈnjuːˌkʌmən /

noun

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

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Newcomen Scientific

/ no̅o̅′kə-mən /

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

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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

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

Our puzzle is that we have Newcomen in Dartmouth in or around 1698, and we can see no way in which knowledge of the steam engine can reach him.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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