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THOMAS NEWCOMEN (1663-1729)

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THOMAS
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NEWCOMEN (1663-1729)  ,
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English engineer, one of the inventors of the
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steam-
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engine, was
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born at
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Dartmouth in 1663 . While employed as an ironmonger in his native
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town, he corresponded with
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Robert
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Hooke about the previous investigations of
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Denis
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Papin and the
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marquis of
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Worcester as to the applicability of steam-
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power for the purpose of
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driving machinery, and in
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conjunction with
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John Calley (or Cawley), said to have been a grazier or glazier in Dartmouth, and
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Captain
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Thomas Savery (165o ?-1715), a military engineer, he constructed in 1705 a "
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fire-engine," now known as the " atmospheric steam-engine." He died in 1729, probably in
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London .

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