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Power Timeline

  • First Commercial Engine

    Newcomen installs his first commercial engine
  • 100 Newcomen engines have been built

  • James Watt's seperate condensor

    James Watt invents the seperate condensor, the key being to relocate the water jet, works as a boiler.
  • Rotated Engine

    First rotated engine, driving a fly wheel by means of the sun and planet gear rather than crank
  • "Double Acting" Engine

    Watt builts his first "double acting" engine - a cylinder in which the working fluid acts alternately on both sides of the piston - common in steam engines
  • Tubular Boiler

    An improved cylinder
  • Tubuluar Boiler & Improved Cylinder

    Nathan Read invented these
  • High-pressure Engine

    Richard Trevithick builts his first high pressure engine
  • Locomotive Engine

    John Steel built Locomotive model