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    Thomas Savery (/ˈseɪvəri/; c. 1650 – 15 May 1715) was an English inventor and engineer. He invented the first commercially used steam-powered device,...
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    was his steam engine, developed around 1712; combining the ideas of Thomas Savery and Denis Papin, he created a steam engine for the purpose of lifting...
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    model of the steam digester in 1679 and Thomas Savery's steam pump in 17th-century England. In 1712, Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine became the...
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  • driving small machines. The industrial use of steam power started with Thomas Savery in 1698. He constructed and patented in London the first engine, which...
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  • geneticist Roelant Savery (1576–1639), Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter Thomas Savery (circa 1650–1715), English inventor Uffe Savery (born 1966), Danish...
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  • first commercial steam engine (a type of external combustion engine) by Thomas Savery in 1698, various efforts were made during the 18th century to develop...
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    invention of the first steam-powered water pump for draining mines. Thomas Savery is considered the inventor of the first commercially used steam powered...
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    market soon thereafter. The invention was inspired by the Savery steam pump invented by Thomas Savery. Around the turn of the century, it was a popular and...
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  • motor used in warfare. 1698 – Thomas Savery builds a steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines. 1712 – Thomas Newcomen builds a piston-and-cylinder...
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    alternately, the delivery rate to the header tank could be increased. In 1698 Thomas Savery patented a steam-powered pump he called the "Miner's Friend", essentially...
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