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 III.

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ENGINES OF SAVERY AND NEWCOMEN.

Savery's Engine. -- Boilers and their Appendages. -- Working Apparatus. -- Mode of Operation. -- Defects of the Engine. -- Newcomen and Cawley. -- Atmospheric Engine. -- Accidental discovery of Condensation by Jet. -- Potter's discovery of the Method of working the Valves. 51