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Producing mechanical motion by means of 8low pressure) steam goes back over 2000 years, but early devices were not practical. Centuries after, the Spanish inventor Jerónimo de Ayans y Beaumont patented in 1606 the first steam engine. In 1698 Thomas Savery patented a steam pump that used steam in direct contact with the water being pumped. The first commercial true steam engine using a piston, and was used in 1712 for pumping in a mine and was made by Thomas Newcomen.

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