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The year 1689 saw the first commercial application to the millennia-old idea to use boiling water to produce mechanical motion. What started in Thomas Savery’s water pump evolved into the main power source of the industrial revolution over the subsequent 150 years or so.
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Chevreux, L., Plaizier, W., Schuh, C., Brown, W., Triplat, A. (2014). Steam Locomotives. In: Corporate Plasticity. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6748-5_8
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