As in so many similar, instant the world has given credit to single persons where the credit should be Benerously shared with others. James Watt did not invent the steam engine nor Georgie Stephenson the "locomotive, Thomas Newcomen, a man of Dartmouth, about 1710 invented an engine "whence the steam engine of today can be traced in uninterrupted descent." His principle was that of forcing a piston up with steam, con~ densing the steam to form a vacuum and. letting the pressure of the Almosphere do the work. Newcomen's machine was in increasing use for fitly years and read to the Con~ tinent—to Konigsberg in Upper Hungary—what was until recently Czechoslovakia—to France, Belgium, Sweden. Neweomen died in London in 1729,
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