This took quite some time: It was in 1698 that inventor Thomas Savery filed a patent for what may have been the first steam engine designed to be put to work. The machine's primary job was to ...

A gentleman from Old Typerwriters and Calculators demonstrated a James Watt Copying press from 1780, known to be the first ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate ... Nicephore Niepce A description of the major scientific invention of the first photograph by Nicephore Niepce in 1826.

The invention of the first power station ... The invention of the steam engine. videoThe invention of the steam engine A description of the major scientific invention of the steam engine ...