Thomas Newcomen
English inventor, ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher (1664-1729) · United Kingdom · Scientists · Died at 65
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Something wrong?An ironmonger in early 18th-century England who solved the mine-flooding problem that was drowning the coal and tin industries - and in doing so built the first practical steam engine.
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Thomas Newcomen was born in February 1664 to a merchant family in Dartmouth, Devon, and baptized at St. Saviour's Church on 28 February. He worked as an ironmonger, running a business that designed and sold tools for the mining industry, and preached as a Baptist on the side. Flooding plagued coal and tin mines throughout England, and Newcomen set about improving the pumps used to clear the water. In 1712 he created the atmospheric engine - the machine that would drain the mines and set the template for the industrial age. He died on 5 August 1729.
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