Newcomen atmospheric steam engine
1712 · Event
First commercially successful steam engine; pumped water from coal mines.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, England, Science & Technology, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
- Abraham Darby's coke-fired blast furnace (1709)
Around 1712
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- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)