2006-07-01 13:36:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Victor Steam (1723-1774) - Englishman, very short, born with no body hair at all. Attempted the fruit engine, the cat engine, and the rubbish engine before striking it rich with his "hot water pumper," as it was originally called. Ironically, Steam was crushed by the first first vehicle to utilize his creation, a single person trackless-train called "The Steamer."
2006-07-01 13:45:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NeO Anderson is right. Hero, a Greek living in Alexandria, invented a steam engine consisting of a metal container of water pivoted on a vertical axis above a fire, with two pipes sticking out. When the water boiled, the steam shooting out made the container spin like a Catherine wheel. The Greeks were great thinkers but they weren't into engineering. If they had been and they'd developed Hero's invention, perhaps the Industrial Revolution would have happened 2000 years earlier.
2006-07-01 23:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did i invented the stean engine 6 months ago...
but Socrates (i believe or one of those funny Greeks) invented the steam engine back in the day... and it was on a metal container filled with water, with two pipes sticking out of it, hanging on a wire or string held over a fire... it would spin at the water turned to steam and escaped...
2006-07-02 01:21:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jesters Deadd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1712, Thomas Newcomen, English, was the first one to use vapor(steam engine) to extract water from the mines through pumping.
In 1776, James Watts, Scottish, increased the capacity and efficiency of the the Steam Engine.
2006-07-01 20:51:21 · answer #4 · answered by spyblitz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In about 1687 the French physicist Denis Papin, with the help of Gottfried Leibniz, built a working model of a steam engine and a paddle steam boat.
2006-07-01 20:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Necomen
2006-07-01 20:48:25 · answer #6 · answered by Richard H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully you mean steaM engine:
Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
2006-07-01 20:39:54 · answer #7 · answered by Random 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eli Whitney?
2006-07-01 20:38:55 · answer #8 · answered by Stacy R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i was taught way back in grade school, "eli whitney invented the cotton "gin".... it wasn't till much , much later in life i learned the "cotton gin" was the steam cotton enGINe [ "gin" being souther slang] used to clean the husks off balls of raw cotton....
..... but i wouldn't feel hurt at all if you picked "eskimo joe" for his colorfull & informative, if dubious submission lol."..no body hair at all.." huh? lol
2006-07-01 22:07:22 · answer #9 · answered by ong jon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some guy back in alexdria 2000 years ago
2006-07-01 22:05:26 · answer #10 · answered by NeO Anderson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋