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Image: Newcomen steam engine

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Description: Photo of model Newcomen steam engine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, which was repaired by James Watt. He used this model to test his separat condensor, inventing the modern steam engine. Caption (model): In 1764, James Watt. In working to repair this Model, belonging to the Natural Philosophy Class in the University of Glasgow, made the discovery of a separate Condenser, which has identified his name to with that of the Steam Engine. Original caption (book): 'The Newcomen engine, in the repairing of which Watt was led to his great discoveries. Preserved in the University of Glasgow.'
Title: Newcomen steam engine
Credit: Downloaded from Elmer Ellsworth Burns (1910) The Story of Great Inventions, Harper & Brothers, New York, p.39, fig.13 on Google Books.
Author: Elmer Ellsworth Burns
Permission: Public domain - publlished in USA before 1923
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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