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Hero invented the first ever recorded steam engine, called the aeolipile. This engine resembles a turbine.
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Using the discoveries of Otto von Guericke, Denis Papin designed the first heat engine which would use steam to move instruments. The heat engine resembles a piston.
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In England, in 1698, Thomas Savery invented the first successful steam-powered pump. The trait that made this pump resemble a pump-jack, was that it lifted water out of mines.
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Patented in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen, the next heat engine also used steam as the driving force. In the steam engine the boiler would create steam that would move a piston, the piston continuing this process would move a pump up and down. Making this pump similar to pump-jacks.
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In 1763, a scotish man named James Watt created the Watt Engine while repairing a Newcomen Engine, which he discovered was very inefficient. The Watt Engine most resembles pump-jacks.
