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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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

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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