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Latest revision as of 01:44, February 19, 2017
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. Scottish inventor James Watt vastly improved the device in the 1760s and 1770s. Steam power was later applied to moving machinery in factories and to powering ships and locomotives.
Sources
The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Bulliet et al., 2005.