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Newcomen

American

[noo-kuhm-uhn, nyoo-] / nuˈkʌm ən, nyu- /

noun

Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.

Newcomen British

/ ˈnjuːˌkʌmən /

noun

Thomas. 1663–1729, English engineer who invented a steam engine, which James Watt later modified and developed

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Newcomen Scientific

/ no̅o̅′kə-mən /

English inventor who developed an early steam engine (1711) that was was widely used to pump water in coal mines.

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Police and firefighters were called to the house in Newcomen Road shortly after 03:00 following reports of a fire.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025

By 1800 Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen had invented, and James Watt and Matthew Boulton had refined, the steam engine.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2020

The Newcomen engine pumped water from British coal mines for more than 200 years.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

A Devonian ironmonger, Newcomen built his device to pump water out of the south west’s prolific tin mines.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2016

Where Newcomen had put two and two together to make the steam engine, Desaguliers, in order to explain its working, has taken them apart again, reinventing Papin’s atmospheric wind-gun.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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