Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Thomas ... developed by Newcomen and Watt at the start of the industrial revolution. The invention of ...

videoThe invention of the steam engine A description of the major scientific invention of the steam engine originally by Thomas Newcomen and then adapted by James Watt.

An atmospheric steam engine built for Caprington Colliery, Ayshire, in 1811 to a design developed by Thomas Newcomen a century earlier. This was less efficient than James Watt's steam engine ...