Newcomen Engines Before Watt: A Quantitative Assessment

Abstract

This paper updates the analysis of steam engine building before 1778. It examines the numbers, chronology and distribution of pumping engines built in the UK before the introduction of the Watt engine and rotary motion.

Keywords:

• Newcomen
• atmospheric engine
• pumping engine
• Watt

Notes

1. J. Harris, ‘The Employment of Steam Power in the Eighteenth Century,’ History, LII, 52 (1967), 133–148.

2. J. Kanefsky and J. Robey, ‘Steam Engines in eighteenth-Century Britain: A Quantitative Assessment,’ Technology and Culture, 21 (1980), 161–186.

3. J. Kanefsky and J. Robey, ‘Steam Engines in eighteenth-Century Britain: A Quantitative Assessment,’ Technology and Culture, 21 (1980), 161–186.