How does water, fire, steam, and metalworking ignite a revolution? Here we explore exactly how the first steam engine, The Newcomen Atmospheric Engine works, and why it was revolutionary!

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Table of Contents:

1:16 Components and Function of the Newcomen Engine

3:55 How a vacuum can generate power

6:17 How much does water expand when evaporated?

7:37 Igniting a revolution in technology

Background Understanding:

Steam, Boiling Water, Air/ Steam Particles

Branches to:

Traction Engines. Understanding Air.

Animation built using Blender 2.79b

Post with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects

Sound editing with Reaper

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Work Cited:

Carl Lira. "Brief History of the Steam Engine" https://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/steam/ Visited September 2019

Black Country Living Museum. https://www.bclm.co.uk/locations/newcomen-engine/8.htm#.XZNVOEZKguU Visited September 2019

Animated Engines. "Newcomen Atmospheric Engine" http://www.animatedengines.com/newcomen.html Visited September 2019

"Thomas Newcomen and the Steam Engine Engineering and Technology History" December 2003. https://ethw.org/Thomas_Newcomen_and_the_Steam_Engine Visited September 2019

Wikipedia contributors. "Beam Engine." "History of the Steam Engine." "James Watt." "Newcomen Atmospheric Engine." "Thomas Newcomen." "Steam." "Steam Engine." "Thomas Savery."  Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited September 2019

Image usage from Europeana www.europeana.eu/ in order:

Map of England and Wales and surrounding seas

Mine from "Popular Lectures on Geology, treated in a comprehensive manner ... Translated

by ... J. G. Morris, and edited by Professor F. Hall"

Engineering: a Newcomen steam-engine. Engraving, 174

James Watt from "The first century of the Republic. A review of American progress. By ... T. D. W., ... F. A. P. Barnard [and others]"

(fi) valokuva kuvasta, jossa höyrymoottori konehallissa; taulussa teksti: 3400 I.H.P. steam engine built by Engineering Works "Nederland" at Ysselmonde

Elektriska maskiner. The complete turbine generators ready -

Lokomotiv No 95, tillverkat vid Pittsburgh Locomotive Works."The heaviest and most powerful locomotive in the world", oktober 1898

Utställningen Bygga & Bo i Uddevalla år 1936

traction engine from "The Traveller's Album and Hotel Guide: containing views of places and buildings of historical and general interest, with descriptive letterpress; an account of the principal railways out of London, etc" -

Skærbækværket, Turbiner

(nl) Vliegtuig van de gebroeders Wright in vlucht; Aéroplane Wright -

Norra Droskstationen.Två automobiler och fyra hästdrosker.I bil nr.2 från vänster sitter Carl Johan Johansson (född 1885) -

Locomotivă cu aburi tip 50065 -

(de) Flugzeug Arado (Ar) 79 B

Adler Trumpf

An express locomotive in a railway line. Colour lithograph

Lokomotiv No 95, tillverkat vid Pittsburgh Locomotive Works."The heaviest and most powerful locomotive in the world", oktober 1898

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