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| c. 75 |
| | Hero, a Greek scientist in Alexandria, devises various forms of steam engine | |
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| 1690 |
| | The French scientist Denis Papin, while professor of mathematics at Marburg, develops the first steam engine to use a piston | |
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| 1698 |
| | Thomas Savery creates the first practical steam engine, designed to pump water out of mines | |
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| c. 1710 |
| | Thomas Newcomen creates a piston steam engine, with the steam condensed in the cylinder by a jet of cold water | |
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| 1764 |
| | James Watt ponders on the inefficiency of contemporary steam engines and invents the condenser | |
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| 1769 |
| | French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle | |
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