Thomas Newcomen: The Invention Of The Steam Engine

One important piece of technology is the steam train. Development for the steam train first started with not the train itself, but the engine used to run it. Development for the steam engine first started in the late 17th century, by English inventor Thomas Savery. Although the steam engine was at first designed to remove water from mines, the design as improved by another English inventor, known as Thomas Newcomen, but that wasn’t the last improvement of its design. It was again improved by a Scottish inventor called James Watt. This is the design that would inspire the steam train. Although it went through a lot of changes, it didn’t become popular in the United States until the 1830’s (McDougal 398). In that time, an inventor known