L10 Flashcards
The steam engine was a solution to this problem.
Ships (Navy)
There was shortage in wood, and they needed to coal mine in order not to use wood for furnaces.
The coal mines were flooded and they needed to pump the water out.
This person never invented the steam engine, but got the first patent for it. He made the “Miner’s Friend”.
Thomas Savery
This person invented the first piston steam engine and the first steamboat.
Denis Papin
Why did Denis Papin fail as a scientist?
He only had one friend who was Robert Hooke. After his death, he had no connections and no money.
Thomas Savery undermined this person out of spite, and sent a letter to the Royal Society saying he is a fraud. Isaac Newton also denied this person’s motion purely out of personal spite towards Robert Hooke.
Denis Papin
This person made a steam engine that actually worked it’s purpose from Papin’s inventions.
Thomas Newcomen
This person was a Scottish instrument maker, and he got a job fixing instruments at the Glasgow University. Coincidentally, he got to work with a steam engine due to it breaking down, and he moved the condensation container to the external container, which made the steam engine much better.
James Watt
This person got the first patent for the James Watt steam engine, and produced the first Soho engine factory.
Matthew Boulton
He was regarded as the “precision freak”, and made the cannon boring machine.
John Wilkinson
This person was the inventor of the crank/flywheel and had his design stolen from James Watt.
James Pickard
The early factories were powered by water. Then it would move on to the steam engine. Why was it that the steam engine was more efficient than water?
Water powering had problems in the winter due to freezing.
This person was the first to implement James Watt’s steam engine, such as the Cromford Mill.
Richard Arkwright
This person became the first to automate machines and develop the assembly line.
Marc Brunel
This person is the first female admitted to the Institution of Civil Engineers in Britain.
Mary Fergusson
This person is a gardener, and he was interested in green houses. He wrote his entry to the Great Conservatory on a napkin, and his entry was fully built 9 months later.
Joseph Paxton
