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Steam power Steam power
Steam Power. Thomas Newcomen constructed the first commercially useful steam engine in England around 1712 to pump water out of mines. During the 1720s, England exported a number of engines to continental Europe. American intellectuals such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson knew of such engines,... Read more
steamship steamship
steamship watercraft propelled by a steam engine or a steam turbine. Early Steam-powered Ships Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans is generally credited with the first experimentally successful application of steam power to navigation; in 1783 his Pyroscaphe ran against the current of the Saone... Read more
locomotive locomotive
locomotive vehicle used to pull a train of unpowered railroad cars. Types of Locomotives The steam-powered locomotive played a key role during the development and golden age of railroading, but, despite its long and picturesque history, it has been superseded in developed nations by electric and... Read more
Autoclave Autoclave
Autoclave The autoclave is a device used to sterilize (deep clean) medical instruments. It did not start out as a medical instrument. In fact, the autoclave was originally invented and promoted as a method for preparing food by French physician Denis Papin. Papin called his invention a "steam... Read more
Oliver Evans Oliver Evans
Oliver Evans 1755-1819, American inventor, b. near Newport, Del. He joined his brothers in a flour-milling business in Wilmington, and after studying similar earlier devices, he developed, installed, and patented a number of grain-handling machines. These inventions included an elevator, a... Read more
Sir Samuel Cunard Sir Samuel Cunard
Sir Samuel Cunard , 1787-1865, Canadian pioneer of regular transatlantic steam navigation, b. Halifax, N.S. The son of a United Empire Loyalist, he became a leading businessman of Nova Scotia and engaged in banking, lumbering, shipping, and shipbuilding enterprises. His fleet at one time numbered... Read more
John Fitch John Fitch
John Fitch 1743-98, American inventor, b. Windsor, Conn. Fitch began (1785) work on the invention of the steam engine and steamboat and secured soon afterward the exclusive right to build and operate steamboats on the waters of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and Virginia. A trial run... Read more
composition board composition board
composition board wood product produced in the form of a board or sheet, formed of cellulose fibers or particles derived from wood or other sources, and used principally as a building material. The oldest type of composition board is a relatively dense material known as hardboard, discovered... Read more
calliope calliope
calliope in music, an instrument also called steam organ or steam piano in which steam is forced through a series of whistles controlled by a keyboard. It is usually played mechanically, and its shrill music is a familiar accompaniment of circus parades. It is named for the Muse of Eloquence.... Read more
Richard Trevithick Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick , 1771-1833, British engineer and inventor, b. Cornwall. He is known as the father of locomotive power because of his invention (1800) of the high-pressure steam engine. He built a steam carriage that on Christmas Eve, 1801, in London, carried the first passengers transported by... Read more

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