[The miner's friend, a pump using steam to create a vacuum to draw water from flooded mines; known as "Mr. Savery's engine for raising water by the help of fire"]
Summary
Illus. in: Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world. London : C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society of London, [1665]-1775, v. 21.
Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 139.
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Date
01/01/1699
Contributors
Savery, Thomas, 1650?-1715.
Source
Library of Congress
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