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
That was done by Thomas Newcomen, who stumbled across cold-water injection.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018
Nick Newcomen went a little further than most, spending a month driving more than 12,000 miles to inscribe his message – "Read Ayn Rand" – on a vast swath of US land.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2010
With a copy of the Continuation in his hands, Newcomen would have known almost everything that Papin knew about how to harness atmospheric pressure to build an engine.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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