Savery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Savery has since moved to Texas and sold his ticket shares to another pal in their group.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2023
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
After meeting up with Jayne Savery, they became a couple and revisited the site of the home in 2013 in a bid to relive some happy memories.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2019
In practice, the engine was used to power ornamental fountains, but not to pump water out of mines, because Savery could not build boilers and cylinders which would sustain a sufficiently high pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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