"When once the idea of the separate condensation was started, all these improvements followed as corollaries in quick …"

"Modern industry is stated by some writers to have begun in 1738 when brought out a . Others place the period as betwe…"

"Iron and heat are, as we know, the supporters, the bases, of the mechanic arts. It is doubtful if there be in England…"

"A blacksmith, Thomas Newcomen, in collaboration with a plumber, John Calley, produced the first commercially successf…"

"The industrial revolution was well underway before the steam-engine came into use for driving machinery. Only two pri…"

"Newcomen's invention was radically different from that of Savery or any other single person. Papin invented the cylin…"

"At first [Newcomen] made a double cylinder, using the space between for condensing water. This was not very satisfact…"

"If the Steam Engine be the most powerful instrument in the hands of man, to alter the face of the physical world, it …"

"Dr. Denys Papin, a native of Blois, a man of great ingenuity, and of considerable acquirements as a philosopher, is c…"

"My first essay at making a steam engine was when I was fifteen. I then made a real working; steam-engine, 1 3/4 diame…"