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Original Article

Thomas Newcomen the Man

Brian CorfieldNewcomen Society, UKView further author information
Pages 209-221 | Published online: 18 Nov 2013

Notes

  • T. R. Harris, ‘The Hornblower Family, Pioneer Steam Engineers’, Journal of the Trevithick Society, 4 (1976), 12–13.
  • L. F. Loree, ‘The First Steam Engine of America’, TNS, x (1929), 15–26.
  • Rhys Jenkins, ‘Jonathan Hornblower and the Compound Engine’, TNS, xiii (1936), 138–51.
  • L. T. C. Rolt and J. S. Allen, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen (Hartington: Moorland Publishing Company, 1977).
  • Rhys Jenkins, ‘The Heat Engine Idea in the Seventeenth Century’, TNS, xvii, 6–8.
  • Wikipedia, Penal Law, ‘Clarendon Code’, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_law>, last accessed June 2012.
  • J. S. Allen, ‘Thomas Newcomen (1663/4–1729) and His Family’, TNS, 51 (1979), p. 20 (hereinafter Allen, ‘Family’).
  • J. S. Allen, ‘Bromsgrove and the Newcomen Engine’, TNS, xliii (1970), 183 (hereinafter Allen, ‘Bromsgrove’).
  • Allen, ‘Family’, pp. 11–12.
  • Ibid., pp. 12–13.
  • Ibid., p. 13.
  • Ibid., p. 13.
  • Ibid., p. 13.
  • W. A. Young, ‘Thomas Newcomen, Ironmonger’, TNS, xx (1939), 1–2.
  • Allen, ‘Family’, p. 14.
  • Ibid., p. 14.
  • Allen, ‘Bromsgrove’, pp. 185–86.
  • Ibid., pp. 186–87.
  • Allen, ‘Family’, p. 15.
  • I. H. Smart, ‘The Dartmouth Residences of Thomas Newcomen and his Family’, TNS, 60 (1988), pp. 145–60.
  • Ibid., p. 157.
  • Rolt, p. 87.
  • Allen, ‘Bromsgrove’, p. 186.
  • A. Smith, ‘Steam and the City: The Committee of the Proprietors of the Invention for Raising Water by Fire, 1715–1733’, TNS, 49 (1977), p. 11.
  • Stephen Switzer, Introduction to a General System of Hydraulicks and Hydrostaticks (1729).
  • Jenkins, pp. 2–11.
  • Ibid.
  • G. J. Hollister Short, ‘Antecedents and Anticipations of the Newcomen Engine’, TNS, 52 (1980), pp. 103–17.
  • Rolt, p. 42.
  • Marten Triewald, Short Description of the Fire and Air Engine at the Dannemora Mines (1734).
  • Allen, ‘Family’, p. 16.
  • J. S. P. Buckland, ‘Thomas Savery His Steam Engine Workshop 1702’, TNS, 56 (1984), pp. 1–14.
  • A. Smith, ‘Steam and the City: The Committee of the Proprietors of the Invention for Raising Water by Fire, 1715–1733’, TNS, 49 (1977), pp. 1–20.
  • J. S. Allen, ‘Newcomen, Thomas (bap. 1664, d. 1729) Ironmonger and Inventor of the Atmospheric Steam Engine’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB, 2004).
  • Ibid.
  • Rolt, p. 86.
  • ODNB.
  • Rolt, p. 145.

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