...Jim Andrew, MSc, PhD, CEng, MIMechE Some 300 years ago in the UK there was a growing need for mine pumping beyond the power available from wind, water and animals. Steady development in the scientific study of such things as steam showed the way ahead and, sometime after 1700, Thomas Newcomen made...

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