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See also:NEWCOMEN, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1663-1729) , See also:English engineer, one of the inventors of the See also:steam-See also:engine, was See also:born at See also:Dartmouth in 1663. While employed as an ironmonger in his native See also:town, he corresponded with See also:Robert See also:Hooke about the previous investigations of See also:Denis See also:Papin and the See also:marquis of See also:Worcester as to the applicability of steam-See also:power for the purpose of See also:driving machinery, and in See also:conjunction with See also:John Calley (or Cawley), said to have been a grazier or glazier in Dartmouth, and See also:Captain Thomas Savery (165o ?-1715), a military engineer, he constructed in 1705 a " See also:fire-engine," now known as the " atmospheric steam-engine." He died in 1729, probably in See also:London.
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