The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators

CHAPTER II.

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FIRST STEPS IN THE INVENTION.

Futility of early Claims. -- Watt the real Inventor. -- Hero of Alexandria. -- Blasco Garay. -- Solomon De Caus. -- Giovanni Branca. -- Marquis of Worcester. -- Sir Samuel Morland. -- Denis Papin. -- Thomas Savery. 38