Thomas Savery
1650?-1715
English Engineer
Thomas Savery was a military engineer who is known for the invention of the Savery pump. This machine was designed to use steam in order to pump floodwaters f...
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Thomas Savery
1650?-1715
English engineer who invented the "Miner's Friend," the first useful machine powered by steam. This device, a steam pump to remove water from mine shafts,...
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Andrei Sakharov with his granddaughter Anya, in the 1970s. (Library of Congress)
Savery, Thomas (1650–1715)
In the study of seventeenth-century life, mystery often pervades the lives and...
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As an English army officer, Thomas Savery was once ejected from the Lord of the Admiralty's office as a lunatic because he proposed a ship that could be propelled by side-mounted wheels rather than by...
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Thomas Savery
Savery, Thomas (1650-1715)
Thomas Savery