What is the history of the steam engine?

Answer 1

the history is 1678 ---- Student term paper. Grade recieved: A!!! Most complex inventions were intended for something entirely different than from their most acknowledged usage. The steam engine is one of them. First designed by the Greek Hero of Alexandra in about 300 B.C., it was never utilized as anything but a toy. The first, in modern time, to patent its most crude version in 1698, was Thomas Savery (1650-1715), an English military engineer and inventor, whose determination had been to pump water out of coal mines. He later worked with an English blacksmith, Thomas Newcome (1663-1729), whose improvements turned the simple machine into an atmospheric steam engine. This allowed the intensity of pressure to be unlimited by the pressure of steam. Although these two intelligent gentlemen thought of the basic idea and also build an indigent version of such a complicated piece of work, the man most famous because of it, was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, James Watt (1736-1819). In 1765, he was assigned to repair Newcomes' engine in the University of Glasgow. Four years later, he patented a separate condenser connected to a cylinder by a valve, allowing the condenser to cool, yet the cylinder would remain hot. (Picture, all that is encircled in green is the cylinder.) Although first used for their original intension of pumping water our of coal mines, Watts changes are the most dominant design for all modern steam engines, which helped bring about the Industrial Revolution, in which about 500 engines were in usage, in order to get other machines running. Machines in factories were often attached to a belt (#10) around the flywheel (#7). Hot steam from a boiler would be pushed into a small compartment (also know as a cylinder) and would push a small lever (piston) away, causing the air on the other side of the piston to move out, pushing a small valve away. That valve and the piston would each be connected to a rod, which would push the wheal into motion. Power for other machines in a factory would be taken off from the engine and by way of a belt. This caused less human and animal labor within the factory itself and could saw timbre, pump water, work a rolling mill, propel a boat, raise coal from a mine, chop grain, cut stone, clean and grind rags for a paper mill, and even make ice faster than ever before. With his improvements, a simple man, Watt, became a millionaire. This elaborate invention was first used when build into a steam railway locomotive in 1802 in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire (UK), and into a stern wheal steam paddle by William Symington. And in 1807, Rubert Futons steamboat, the "Clemont", traveled for 32 hours from New York City to Albany at approximately 5 miles per hour. The steam engine, which four men contributed themselves to, is not only a great machine to report about in history books, it is a fantastic device that changed society and man's evolution at once.