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	Newcomen steam engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine, today referred to as a Newcomen steam engine (or simply Newcomen engine), was the first practical device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work.
		Newcomen engines were used throughout England and Europe to pump water out of mines starting in the early 18th century, and were the basis for James Watt's later improved versions.
		Newcomen's engine was only replaced when James Watt improved it to avoid this problem (Watt had been asked to repair a model of a Newcomen engine by Glasgow University).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newcomen_steam_engine (1538 words)

	Chapter2 text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After some discussion with Calley, Newcomen entered into correspondence with Dr. Hooke, proposing a steam engine to consist of a steamcylincler containing a piston similar to that of Papin's, and to drive a separate pump similar to those generally in use where water was raised by horse or wind power.
		In illustration of the application of the Newcomen engine to the drainage of mines, Farey describes a small machine, of which the pump is 8 inches in diameter, and the lift 162 feet.
		By the end of the eighteenth century, therefore, the engine of Newcomen, perfected by the ingenuity of Potter and of Beighton, and by the systematic study and experimental research of Smeaton, had become a well established form of steamengine, and its application to raising water had become general.
	www.history.rochester.edu /steam/thurston/1878/Chapter2.html (6077 words)

	Thomas Newcomen Encyclopedia Article @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Newcomen (baptised February 24, 1664; died August 5, 1729) was a flsmith, plumber, and tinsmith by trade, and a baptist lay preacher by calling.
		In consequence, he is often referred to as a father of the Industrial Revolution, as the inventor of the Newcomen steam engine.
		Newcomen's engine was only replaced when James Watt improved it to avoid this problem.
	higherpower.org /encyclopedia/Thomas_Newcomen (1023 words)

	Newcomen Society - more about us: Thomas Newcomen
		Thomas Newcomen was the inventor of the first practicable atmospheric steam pumping engine, the Newcomen engine.
		Newcomen was born in Dartmouth, Devon in 1664, a devout Baptist.
		The uptake of Newcomen's engine was rapid, and Newcomen himself was involved with engines at Griff near Coventry in 1714; at Bilston in 1714; Leeds and Harwarden in Flintshire in 1714/15; Whitehaven in 1715.
	www.newcomen.com /thomas.htm (1002 words)

	Thomas Newcomen - inventor
		ALTHOUGH Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) was dead before the Industrial Revolution really got under way, his atmospheric steam engine was the first powered device designed to help industry.
		But Newcomen's design, the first real engine ever made, was far superior and it possessed all the basic features of machines being built more than a century later.
		THOMAS NEWCOMEN was a pivotal figure in the Industrial Revolution.
	www.cottontimes.co.uk /newcomeno.htm (411 words)

	BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Thomas Newcomen inventor of the atmospheric engine
		Born in Dartmouth in 1663, Thomas Newcomen made a significant contribution to the industrial revolution with his invention of the atmospheric engine.
		Newcomen's invention enabled mines to be drained to greater depths than had previously been economically possible and so helped provide the coal, iron and other metals that were vital to the expansion of industry.
		By the time Thomas Newcomen died in 1729 there were at least 100 of his engines working in Britain and across Europe.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/discovering/famous/thomas_newcomen.shtml (443 words)

	BBC - History - Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729)
		By 1685 Thomas Newcomen had established himself as an ironmonger in his hometown, Dartmouth.
		By the time Thomas Newcomen died in 1729 there were at least one hundred of his engines working in Britain and across Europe.
		As a result Newcomen was forced to go into partnership with him and does not appear to have benefited greatly from his invention.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/newcomen_thomas.shtml (395 words)

	Steam Engines of the Eighteenth Century - Thomas Newcomen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Newcomen who was born in 1663/4 at Dartmouth England was the inventor of the world’s first commercial steam engine.
		Many people give the credit for the invention of the steam engine to James Watt, but Thomas Newcomen set to work his first engine to drain the flood water from a coal mine in 1712, which was twenty four years before James Watt was born.
		Newcomen’s first engine was built in Staffordshire where it pumped 120 gallons of water each minute from a coal mine seam which was 150 feet below the surface.
	www.btinternet.com /~historical.engines/newcomen.htm (311 words)

	Newcomen Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Newcomen had drawn up, independently of Denis Papin, the idea to move a piston inside a cylinder by atmospheric pressure thanks to the partial vacuum created by steam condensing.
		Newcomen had to establish a firm with Savery.
		In 1725, the Newcomen engine was employed in many coal mines but also was used to take water to mill-wheels.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/6914/newcome.htm (195 words)

	The Newcomen Society of the United States - THOMAS NEWCOMEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Because of his lower class standing, Newcomen was not quickly accepted or recognized for his achievements in the development of the steam engine.
		The Newcomen model was unlike any other engine up to this time - the first self-acting engine incorporating a vacuum that was created by the condensation of steam back into the water.
		Thomas Newcomen has been overshadowed by the better known Scotsman James Watt, incorrectly noted as the "inventor" of the steam engine beginning in 1765.
	www.newcomen.org /thomas_newcomen.php (465 words)

	Thomas Newcomen Biography / Biography of Thomas Newcomen History of Invention Biography
		thomas · pressure · nevertheless · inventors ·; engine · steam engine · industrial revolution ·; james watt ·; flsmith ·; piston ·; atmospheric pressure · thomas newcomen · thomas savery · denis papin · boiler · newcomen engine · steam pump ·; calley · atmospheric engine · downward stroke
		Thomas Newcomen was the first person to build an effective and economical steam engine.
		Newcomen was born in Dartmouth, England, in February 1663.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-thomas-newcomen-woi (261 words)

	"Harnessing the Void," Feature Article, December 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Newcomen engine was staggeringly inefficient by today's standards, but it was a commercial success for a time because it was the only practical alternative to pumps powered by horses.
		Both Watt's and Newcomen's engines in their first stages used a "walking beam" linkage, in which the linear motion of a piston was translated to another linear motion in a reciprocating pump.
		Efficiency was not helped by Newcomen's belief that the volume of steam being produced was proportional to the volume of water in the boiler, rather than to the heat input.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/dec03/features/harnessing/harnessing.html (2297 words)

	Animated Engines, Newcomen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This magnificent engine was patented in 1705 by Thomas Newcomen, and is generally regarded as the first 'modern' steam engine.
		The Newcomen was first used to pump water from mines in England.
		Newcomen engines were successful in part because they were very safe to operate.
	www.keveney.com /newcommen.html (282 words)

	Thomas Newcomen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Later Newcomen engines were improved through the introduction of accurately machined cylinders and pistons, made possible by the inventions of engineers like Wilkinson, Darby and Huntsman.
		Unfortunately for Thomas Newcomen the terms of Savery's patent, which had been extended until 1733, covered his as well as later engines and he did not profit greatly from his innovation.
		Newcomen transformed Savery's engine from a limited and expensive device to a true 'machine' with a much wider range of applications.
	basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk /~mjh1hlc/newcomen.htm (292 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Newcomen Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Newcomen, Thomas (1663-1729), English flsmith and inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, born at Dartmouth, Devon, in late February 1663....
		In the early 1700s the inventor and flsmith Thomas Newcomen had developed a crude but usable piston engine.
		In 1698, the English engineer Thomas Savery built a steam engine that used two copper vessels alternately filled with steam from a boiler.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Newcomen_Thomas.html (110 words)

	-- Are We There Yet?
		We're sorry to announce that the Newcomen Museum is permanently closed, with all the fascinating steam equipment having been auctioned off.
		The man was Thomas Newcomen, a Cornishman, who built the first commercially successful "fire engine" -- an atmospheric steam engine.
		Newcomen's invention caught on, and his engines soon dotted the countryside of England and Europe.
	www.fieldtrip.com /pa/03636600.htm (362 words)

	Newcomen Steam Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From the perspective of the 21st century the steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) of Darmouth seems pathetically primitive, particularly after its replacement with the steam engine of James Watt.
		Newcomen was a merchant, an iron monger who dealt in metal parts and bulk iron.
		The way the Newcomen engine work, as is illustrated below, what with a piston in a cylinder connected to a rocker arm attached to a pump.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/newcomen5.htm (594 words)

	Thomas Newcomen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Newcomen, Thomas (1663-1729), English flsmith and inventor, born in Dartmouth, Devon.
		Newcomen was not born in Stoke-on-Trent but his steam engine was installed in John Turners potworks in 1775.
		Newcomen attempted to produce a reliable steam engine, and in 1705 he devised an engine with another English inventor, John Calley, also known as John Cawley.
	www.thepotteries.org /biographies/newcomen.htm (177 words)

	Steam Engines - Numericana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Savery obtained several patents before Thomas Newcomen made his own entrance.
		Thomas Newcomen was an English flsmith born in Dartmouth (Devonshire) who set up shop there in 1685, in partnership with a plumber named John Calley [also spelled "Cawley"] (d.1717) who shared his interest in engines.
		In 1708, Newcomen obtained a patent (jointly with Savery) for what's usually considered to be the first practical steam engine.
	home.att.net /~numericana/answer/steam.htm (1940 words)

	No. 69: Steam Engines in England
		Thomas Savery began it all with his steam pump in 1698.
		He was followed by Thomas Newcomen's first real steam engine in 1711.
		The cylinders of the old Newcomen engines were from two to ten feet in diameter.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi69.htm (428 words)

	Steam Engines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Newcomen was the first man to work on the steam engine who was a practical tradesman.
		It is believed that Newcomen had no prior knowledge of the work of his predecessors in the area of the steam engine.
		Thomas Newcomen: The Prehistory of the Steam Engine was written by L.T.C. Rolt in order to honor the name of a man too often overlooked.
	www.udayton.edu /~hume/Steam/steam.htm (3498 words)

	Newcomen articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Newcomen, Thomas NEWCOMEN, THOMAS [Newcomen, Thomas], 1663-1729, English inventor of an early atmospheric steam engine (c.1711).
		It was an improvement over an earlier engine patented (1698) by Thomas Savery, who shared the later patent with Newcomen.
		While working at the Univ. of Glasgow as an instrument maker, Watt was asked to repair a model of Thomas Newcomen's steam engine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Newcomen (152 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : History : The Industrial Revolution : Steam
		Newcomen formed a partnership with Savery and, in 1705, they developed an entirely new form of atmospheric engine.
		Together Newcomen and Culley spent ten years experimenting with steam engines which could be used to draw water out of Cornish tin mines.
		Newcomen's engine was widely used in the tin mines of Cornwall and in mines in the north of England.
	www.saburchill.com /history/chapters/IR/017.html (573 words)

	AP INNOVATIONS
		Thomas Newcomen, an English flsmith, invented the powerful atmospheric steam engine in 1712.
		The first crude design and prototype of the steam engine was actually made by Thomas Savery in 1698, who in turn is actually rumored to have gotten the idea from Worcester.
		But, with no doubt, it was Newcomen of 1712 who combined the ideas of Huyghens, Papin, Savery, and many more men and successfully came up with a final plan that is said to be the direct predecessor of the steam engine that is used today.
	www.tjhsst.edu /~gkannark/1769_01.htm (420 words)

	Thomas Newcomen Biography / Biography of Thomas Newcomen Main Biography
		thomas · engine · patent · steam engine · industrial revolution ·; dartmouth ·; omnipresent · piston ·; itinerant · thomas newcomen · english inventor ·; thomas savery · motive force · basic principle · newcomen engine · water pump ·; partial vacuum ·; devonshire · mining areas
		Thomas Newcomen was born on Feb. 24, 1663, at Dartmouth, Devonshire.
		As to how Newcomen might have achieved this, 18th- and 19th-century writers usually pointed to earlier attempts to use steam as a motive force.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-thomas-newcomen (249 words)

	Newcomen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Newcomen is one of Dartmouth's most famous sons.
		This particular engine was built around the end of the 18th Century and used by the Coventry Canal Company from 1821 to 1913 for pumping water from a well into the canal at Hawkesbury Junction.
		Inside the Newcomen Engine House the massive machine stands proud and attractive and wooden interpretive panels made by local craftsman Peter Walmsley tell the story of Thomas Newcomen and his inventions.
	www.dartmouth.org.uk /newcomen.htm (358 words)

	Knitting Together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He realised that steam produced by heating water could be trapped in a cylinder and that sufficient pressure could be built up to raise a piston.
		The vertical motion of this engine meant that it had limited applications, but with a beam attached to the piston it was successfully used to pump water out of mines.
		James Watt realised the potential of Newcomen's invention and began experimenting to see how the vertical motion of the piston and beam could be harnessed to drive other machinery.
	www.knittingtogether.org.uk /doc.asp?doc=7356&cat=738 (785 words)

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