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He did NOT invent the steam engine. He improved it in two ways.

1) He investigated why early steam engines were so inefficient, and how to cure that problem.

2) He developed rotative motion so that the previous engines, which were purely reciprocating steam-pumps for mines, could be made to drive factory machinery.

He was the technical one of the business partnership with Matthew Boulton, a machinery manufacturer based in Birmingham (English Midlands).

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