Savery

British

/ ˈseɪvərɪ /

noun

Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines

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“I should have had a date,” Savery said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

Richard Savery, one of the researchers, says, “You’ll get a word like ‘storm’, and then it’ll generate a whole bunch of related words, like ‘rain’.”

From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024

Fortunately for Seattle, Savery was a repeat customer.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2020

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

First, he began work on his steam engine around the same time as Savery began work on his, so no later than 1698.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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