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A '''steam engine''' is a machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion.  [[Thomas Newcomen]] built the first crude, but workable, steam engine in 1712.  [[James Watt]] vastly improved the device in the 1760's and 1770's.  Steam power was later applied to moving machinery in factories and to powering ships and [[locomotives]].

A '''steam engine''' is a machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion.  [[Thomas Newcomen]] built the first crude, but workable, steam engine in 1712.  Scotting inventor [[James Watt]] vastly improved the device in the 1760's and 1770's.  Steam power was later applied to moving machinery in factories and to powering ships and [[locomotives]].

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