Pioneers like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt created ever-improving steam engines. Over time, horses fell by the wayside as people took to this new mode of transportation. Railroads began ...
Mark Miodownik shows a working model of a steam engine originally made the blacksmith Thomas Newcomen in 1712 ... In 1763 James Watt was repairing a model of a Newcomen engine.
The Newcomen steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The engine was commonly found in coal mines across Britain and Europe in the 1700s. A diagram of Watt's 1776 steam engine.