Piston engines are the heart of many machines we use today, from cars and airplanes to industrial machinery and motorcycles. Their history is one of innovation, experimentation, and continuous ...

Watt had noticed that the problem with the Newcomen steam engine was its loss of latent heat. At this time understanding of the steam engine was in a very primitive state.

In Europe, steam power evolved gradually and uncertainly over the course of the eighteenth century, with innovative peaks and long plateaus, from Thomas Savery’s steam pump (1698) via Thomas ...

Across the road at The Dartmouth Visitor Centre you will find the Newcomen Memorial Engine which is sometimes called the Coventry Canal Engine. It was made in 1725 and was first used for mine drainage ...

The Watt steam engine drastically increased fuel efficiency by minimizing heat loss, and improving power output. This left the Newcomen in the past, and the remaining units are now museum pieces.

AMONG the vast number of ingenious inventors whose work is the heritage of to-day, a prominent place must be accorded to Thomas Newcomen, who invented the atmospheric steam engine. Newcomen died ...

Newcomen gives 60 or 70 dinners a year in honor of a businessman, educator or other leading citizen.† Newcomeners who attend pay a big markup on the actual cost, and the honoree or his company ...