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Posted on December 5, 2018

Summary of “The Origins of the Steam Engine” by Ferguson

When thinking of the creator of the steam engine or who started the industrial revolution many people think of James Watt. However, fifty years before Watt became popular in the public eye a man named Thomas Newcomen was building steam engines which pumped water out of mines.

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