Section II.—The Period of Application—Worcester, Papin, and Savery.

Written by roberthenrythurston | Published 2023/04/12
Tech Story Tags: history | non-fiction | hackernoon-books | project-gutenberg | books | robert-henry-thurston | scientific-series | a-history-of-the-growth

TLDRWe next meet with the first instance in which the expansive force of steam is supposed to have actually been applied to do important and useful work. In 1663, Edward Somerset, second Marquis of Worcester, published a curious collection of descriptions of his inventions, couched in obscure and singular language, and called “A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Inventions by me already Practised.”via the TL;DR App
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Written by roberthenrythurston | Robert Henry Thurston was an American engineer, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Published by HackerNoon on 2023/04/12
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