Newcomen Memorial Engine (sometimes called the Coventry Canal Engine) is a preserved beam engine in Dartmouth, Devon. It was preserved as a memorial to...

Thomas Newcomen (/ˈnjuːkʌmən/; February 1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor, creator of the atmospheric engine in 1712, Baptist preacher by...

engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is sometimes referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or Newcomen engine. The engine was...

Savery atmospheric engine (1700) Newcomen engine (1712) Watt engine (1775) Hornblower (1781) Trevithick (1799) Woolf (1804) Cornish engine (1812) McNaught'ed...

engine directly driving a pump, was first used by Thomas Newcomen around 1705 to remove water from mines in Cornwall. The efficiency of the engines was...

and 15th century painter Pisanello.: 113  The 1712 Newcomen atmospheric engine (the first steam engine) used chain drive instead of a connecting rod, since...

engineer. In 1765, he began experimenting with working models of steam-engine-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannons...

in a trunk engine. Therefore, the longitudinal dimension of the crosshead must be matched to the stroke of the engine. On smaller engines, the connecting...

(pumped liquid cooling, air cooling, etc.). The working fluid of a heat engine or heat pump is a gas or liquid, usually called a refrigerant, coolant,...

Precursors Savery Engine (1698) Newcomen engine Newcomen Memorial Engine (1725) Fairbottom Bobs (1760) Elsecar Engine (1795) Watt engine High-pressure Richard...

it. The first of these engines was horse-worked in around 1735, then replaced by a Newcomen engine in 1742–1743. Newcomen engines were recognised as expensive...

road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road...

Fairbottom Bobs is a Newcomen-type beam engine that was used in the 18th century as a pumping engine to drain a colliery near Ashton-under-Lyne. It is...

part of the valve gear in the 1715 Newcomen engine, an early form of steam engine. Early versions of the Newcomen engines from 1712 had manually operated...

Precursors Savery Engine (1698) Newcomen engine Newcomen Memorial Engine (1725) Fairbottom Bobs (1760) Elsecar Engine (1795) Watt engine High-pressure Richard...

Two older Newcomen engines survive, the Newcomen Memorial Engine at Dartmouth and Fairbottom Bobs in the Henry Ford Museum. Engines were characterised...

Precursors Savery Engine (1698) Newcomen engine Newcomen Memorial Engine (1725) Fairbottom Bobs (1760) Elsecar Engine (1795) Watt engine High-pressure Richard...

the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham...

Rolt, L.T.C.; Allen, J.S.A. (1977). The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen. Moorland. p. 122. "Fire Engine at Warmley". Bristol Journal. 30 September 1749...

A crankshaft is a mechanical component used in a piston engine to convert the reciprocating motion into rotational motion. The crankshaft is a rotating...

day, beginning with Newcomen's. The Lap Engine of 1788, also the Whitbread Engine (1785), represent survivors of the first engines to show all of Watt's...

of gilded bronze). In 1782, it became the first site with a Watt steam engine with the sun and planet gear. It was also home to the first steam-powered...

entering the device. In the case of a reciprocating internal combustion engine, a piston cannot complete its travel and mechanical failure may occur if...

Stockton and Darlington Railway, the safety valve tended to go off when the engine hit a bump in the track. A valve less sensitive to sudden accelerations...

In mechanical engineering, the cylinders of reciprocating engines are often classified by whether they are single- or double-acting, depending on how...

modern steam) reflects an approach to the technical development of the steam engine intended for a wider variety of applications than has recently been the...

of boiler used to make steam, usually for the purpose of driving a steam engine. The design marked a transitional stage in boiler development, between the...

engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes...

An expansion valve is a device in steam engine valve gear that improves engine efficiency. It operates by closing off the supply of steam early, before...

Matthew Murray (1765 – 20 February 1826) was an English steam engine and machine tool manufacturer, who designed and built the first commercially viable...