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antonhowes
on July 15, 2022
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Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part...
Maybe for the Watt engine, but this does not apply to the Savery or Newcomen engines. (Though Part III, or perhaps IV, will have a few notes on some almost totally forgotten machine makers of the 1650s.
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