James Watt's Steam Engine
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer renowned for improving the steam engine. His invention of a separate condenser significantly increased the engine's efficiency, playing a vital role in the Industrial Revolution. The unit of power, the watt, is named in his honour. Watt's innovations had a lasting impact on industry and engineering.
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According historians and books, the first steam machine was patented by Thomas Savery in 1689. But in 1600, almost one hundred years before, Jerónimo de Ayanz had patented in Spain, one steam machine similar to that patented by Savery. These machines were used to pump out water in flooded mines, and is the first use of steam with industrial purposes; this device it is considered to be the precedents for James Wat's steam engines
Britain from 1800 to 1900.
20,000 Waterwheels decreased in number.
Windmills decreased in number.
The Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared.
The Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10,000,000 !!!
For every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 we now had an additional 500 Steam Engines in1900 !!!
In the space of one ( possible ) human lifetime!
That's an increase in available Power for the whole country of 500 times !!!
This WAS the Industrial Revolution, and it was all due to only one single Invention, James Watt's Invention of the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine.
Take away Steam Power and there's no Industrial Revolution!
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James Watt didn't improve Newcomen's Atmospheric Pump, it couldn't be improved, even by James Watt.
Watt dumped Savery and Newcomen's Atmospheric Power and Arkwright's Water-Power for Steam Power. To achieve that he had to invent a new engine, the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine.
It changed the world!
I’m guessing you’re a Scot that can’t let the English take the credit for the worlds FIRST steam engine, even though James watt was directly influenced by newcomen’s engine, and then invented an engine that applied all that he learned from the Newcomen engine with his improvements added.
And for your information it was an steam engine not a steam pump, while the Newcomen steam engine was primarily used to pump water out of mines, it was also used in other things such as factories for a short while, as well as other things like the Cornish beam engine etc.
Newcomen's machine was designed and built to supply Atmospheric Power.
Watt's machine was designed and built to supply Steam Power.
They are two different machines, so they shouldn't have the same name. What's wrong with Atmospheric engine and Steam engine, seems pretty logical to me. Or is it something to do with the Steam Engine being the Industrial Revolution, logic goes out the window?
There's an Industrial Revolution's worth of difference between Newcomen's Atmospheric engine and Watt's Steam engine.
@@Walter-w9v it’s called the Atmospheric Steam Engine for a reason…. It’s an engine that is powered by steam on one side of the piston, whereas watts engine is powered on both sides, that is the number 1 difference, but this in absolutely no way disqualifies Newcomens Engine as the first steam engine in the world, because it was powered by steam after all.
But they usually drop Atmospheric, and just call it the first Steam Engine, which it isn't. Watt's first Engines were pumping Engines with Steam pushing one side only. His later rotary ones had Steam pushing the piston on both sides. In Newcomen's Engines Steam doesn't push the piston at all, it's only there to create a vacuum. The weight of Air sitting on the piston pushes it down. ( the cylinder being open at the top ).
@@Walter-w9v I’m sorry you are completely wrong, first of all it is a Atmospheric Steam Engine, regardless of if it’s atmospheric or not it’s still the FIRST Steam engine in the world, and Newcomens engine did push the piston with steam from the bottom side, so you are completely wrong there.