Concurrently, mines needed drained resulting in Savery and Newcomen's early steam driven pumping systems.
:For George Sparrow the coalmaster, see Thomas Savery
Savery also worked for the Sick and Hurt Commissioners, contracting the supply of medicines to the Navy Stock Company, which was connected with the Society of Apothecaries.
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The early steam engines developed by Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen which drew water from mines and the industrial steam engines perfected by James Watt and others employed the ancestors of today's engineers.
1698: Thomas Savery introduces a steam pump he calls the Miner's Friend.