History of the steam engine | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-07-05

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00:01:12 1 Precursors
00:01:21 1.1 Early uses of steam power
00:04:00 2 Development of the commercial steam engine
00:07:45 2.1 Cylinders
00:09:14 2.2 Savery steam pump
00:11:47 3 Atmospheric condensing engines
00:11:58 3.1 Newcomen "atmospheric" engine
00:15:03 3.2 Watt's separate condenser
00:20:52 3.3 Watt double-acting and rotative engines
00:21:57 4 High-pressure engines
00:27:19 4.1 Cornish engine and compounding
00:29:14 5 Corliss engine
00:30:16 6 Porter-Allen high speed steam engine
00:31:35 6.1 Uniflow (or unaflow) engine



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The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt. Several steam-powered devices were later experimented with or proposed, such as Taqi al-Din's steam jack, a steam turbine in 16th-century Ottoman Egypt, and Thomas Savery's steam pump in 17th-century England. In 1712, Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine became the first commercially successful engine using the principle of the piston and cylinder, which was the fundamental type steam engine used until the early 20th century. The steam engine was used to pump water out of coal mines
During the Industrial Revolution, steam engines started to replace water and wind power, and eventually became the dominant source of power in the late 19th century and remaining so into the early decades of the 20th century, when the more efficient steam turbine and the internal combustion engine resulted in the rapid replacement of the steam engines.  The steam turbine has become the most common method by which electrical power generators are driven. Investigations are being made into the practicalities of reviving the reciprocating steam engine as the basis for the new wave of advanced steam technology.