Newcomen
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Police and firefighters were called to the house in Newcomen Road shortly after 03:00 following reports of a fire.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 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
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
On the other hand, Newcomen, unlike Savery, had to construct a moving piston, with all the difficulties of potential friction and leaking that entailed.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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