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Thomas Newcomen, the inventor of the atmospheric engine – the first successful steam-powered pumping engine – was born in Dartmouth in 1663.
The location of his house in Lower Street is marked with a plaque, although the building itself was demolished ( and elements incorporated into local architect Thomas Lidstone's house on Ridge Hill ) in the 19th century to make way for a new road which was named after Newcomen.
* 1712: Thomas Newcomen invents first practical steam engine which begins Industrial Revolution in England.
Thomas Newcomen ( 1664 – 1729 ) perfected a practical steam engine for pumping water, the Newcomen steam engine.
Nevertheless, in 1697, based on Papin's designs, engineer Thomas Savery built the first engine, followed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.
* The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England, the first practical device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work.
* Jones, Thomas Roy, Printing in America, The Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, New York 1948,
* 1712 – Thomas Newcomen builds a piston-and-cylinder steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines.
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