who invented the steam engine?

Question

and where did they come from????

Answer 1

The first recorded steam device, the aeolipile, was invented by Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD, but used only as a toy.

In 1663, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester published designs for, and may have installed, a steam-powered engine for pumping water at Vauxhall House.

James Watt (19 January 1736 – 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 2

The history of the steam engine stretches back as far as the first century AD; the first recorded rudimentary steam engine being the aeolipile described by Hero of Alexandria.[3] In the following centuries, the few engines known about were essentially experimental devices used by inventors to demonstrate the properties of steam, such as the rudimentary steam turbine device described by Taqi al-Din[4] in 1551 and Giovanni Branca[5] in 1629. The first practical steam-powered 'engine' was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery. It proved only to have a limited lift height and was prone to boiler explosions, but it still received some use for mines and pumping stations.

Answer 3

The first steam engine was invented by the inventor Thomas Newcomen in who lived between 1664 and 1729. In 1763 James Watt improved his invention to what you would think of as a modern steam engine. Of course the steam engine has been changed since to be more efficient but it still works off the ideas of these two European inventors.

Answer 4

The Greeks had knowledge of how to build and use steam engines 2,000+ years ago, but they really had no practical application for the technology at the time so it was kind of lost for a while

Answer 5

Hero of Alexandria (c 10 – 70 AD) constructed a steam engine, so it was him or someone before him.

He was a Greek, living in Roman Egypt

Answer 6

Hero.
Then the Chinese had steam toys that moved under their own power circa 1600 AD.
James Watt only improved on it so it could be used to do the work previously afforded to horses.

Answer 7

Newcomen

Answer 8

I always thought it was Robert Lewis Stephenson, but that was before "Popov's Law" in RRusssia Popov invented everything, or at least that is what they used to believe

Answer 9

james watt