biography
pronunciation:
[nyookuhmen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1663–1729)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Dartmouth, Devon, SW England, UK. A blacksmith by trade, he developed a piston engine using steam at atmospheric pressure and the vacuum created when the steam was condensed to pump water from mines. In 1698 he began working with Thomas Savery, who had just patented a high pressure steam engine. Together they constructed practical working engines that were widely used in collieries. |
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