biography
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Hornblower, Jonathan (Carter)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1753–1815)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Chacewater, Cornwall, SW England, UK. As a young man he was employed by Boulton and James Watt to build one of their engines. He determined to improve Watt's design, and by 1781 had obtained a patent for a single-acting compound engine with two cylinders, in which the steam acted expansively and hence much more efficiently. He was judged, however, to have infringed Watt's patent of the separate condenser, and had to abandon further development of his engine. He later patented a rotary type of steam engine which was never built. |
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