Thomas Newcomen
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Thomas Newcomen was a blacksmith from Dartmouth, England. He invented the engine in 1712 and was known as the "Atmospheric Steam Engine". The personal history of Thomas Newcomen is very limited. The inventor was considered an strange and odd by locals. When first designed the atmospheric engine had a slow process of compression by the process of the water to the outer part of the invention, then creating a vacuum. Changes were made to the inventions he created. Thus increasing the speed of the process. Newcomen's first engine created six to eight strokes per minute, when changes were made to the invention it created ten to twelve strokes. Newcomen's first engine that actually worked was created at a coal-mine in Dudley Castle in Staffordshire. Newcomen's invention raises ten gallons of water. The engines were dependable, and worked 24/7.