"What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor. I do not doubt that the same thought may have occurred to him, as well as to others, without having learnt it elsewhere."
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Denis Papin, as quoted by Bernard Forest de Bélidor, Architecture Hydraulique Vol.2, p. 309 Tr. Patrick Muirhead, The Life of James Watt (1859) p. 145
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Thomas Savery
1650 – 1715
(c. 1650–1715) was an English inventor and engineer, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England. He is famous for his invention of the first commercially used steam powered engine.
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