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Who invented the steam-driven locomotives?
your mother
What major problem in the coal mining industry did Thomas Newcomen's steam engine help solve?
pumping water out of shafts -----> NovaNET answer Creating new tools. It operated pumps to control flooding of the mines.
Who invented the steam driven locomotive?
for all practical purposes, Richard Trevithick, a Welshman, in l804.
A steam engine device which keeps the speed of the engine all loads constant is known as?
governor
When was the railway engine invented?
The history of the steam engine stretches back as far as the first century AD; the first recorded rudimentary steam engine being the aeolipile described by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria. In the following centuries, the few steam-powered "engines" known were, like the aeolipile, essentially experimental devices used by inventors to demonstrate the properties of steam. A rudimentary steam turbine device was described by Taqi al-Din in 1551 and by Giovanni Branca in 1629. Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont received patents in 1606 for fifty steam powered inventions, including a water pump for draining inundated mines. Denis Papin, a Huguenot refugee, did some useful work on the steam digester in 1679, and first used a piston to raise weights in 1690
What was steam engines first used to power?
Pumps, to remove water from coal mines.
How did savery's steam engine make life better?
It did so directly only for miners. Savory's engine was a purely vacuum-driven device for pumping water from mines, the vacuum being developed by condensing steam, but it laid the foundations for developments including crucially, those of James Watt.
What parts on a turbine pump move to make it pump water?
the impeller of the pump, discharges the water of a steam or air or electric driven pumps.
Is there much water in coal mines?
Will depend on the mine, but in general, underground coal mines may be very wet. One of the first uses of early steam engines was operating mine pumps to control water levels.
What type of feed pump are used in steam turbines?
Actually feed pump in the boiler is used to send water inboiler that is converted into steam whose kinetic energyis used to produce electricity. This pump can be driven byelectricity or steam from Turbine. In steam driven pumps, steam from tubine is bledand used to drive the impeller of pumpand send water in boiler.
What was a steam boat?
That is a boat driven by steam power.
What was steam powers impact on the environment?
because steam is water and water does not effect the enviroment. although the used to creat steam power is dug up in mines and the mines can be dangerous
When was the steam machine invented?
The first steam machine was the simple turbine invented by Hero of Alexandria in 100AD. The first practical steam driven machine was the beam engine invented by the Cornish engineer Newcomen in the 18th century. It was used to pump water out of the tin mines.
What are the release dates for Steam Driven - 2011?
Steam Driven - 2011 was released on: USA: 14 October 2011 (limited)
Why were steam engines invented?
It started with mines. Many mines had water seeping into them and had to be continuously pumped dry to allow the work to continue. That pumping was very hard work. The first steam engines were used to power those pumps in a more efficient manner.After that, people quickly started experimenting where else a steam engine could be used as a power source, to replace windmills, water wheels etc.The first steam engines were needed to remove water from mines, especially tin mines in Cornwall, UK The locomotive, a moving steam engine, was needed to pull wagons loaded with coal from the coal mines of Northumberland which was previously done by horses. Later they were used to pull people because they were quicker than the horse and carriage. Answer no because befor they used horses as ttransportation for goods!It was a technological advancement. It was part of the industrial revolution!
How were steam engines used in the past?
Steam engines were first used in the tin mines of Cornwall, England to pump water from the mines which often extended out under the Cornish coastline.
What is the faults of the steam driven pump?
Steam driven machines are extremely non efficient. Gasoline machines are'nt much better
