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3 unusual facts about Newcomen


Newcomen

Matthew Newcomen (circa 1610-1669), English nonconformist churchman

Steven Hoogendijk

With the support of the Society at their own expense they brought a Newcomen steam engine from England to an old Powder Tower at the edge of Rotterdam.

Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen

Theresa Cockerell married again 1841 Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton as his first wife, and bore him three sons (of whom two succeeded successively to the earldom) and one daughter.


Crusher

Concurrently, mines needed drained resulting in Savery and Newcomen's early steam driven pumping systems.

Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet

The first problem to be confronted in such an enterprise was drainage, which was dealt with by using early Newcomen steam engines.

Timeline of steam power

1765: Ivan Polzunov builds a two-cylinder Newcomen engine for powering mine ventilation in Barnaul, Russia.


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