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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1936
Page
8
The article traces steam power from ancient ideas of Hero in northern Egypt to modern use in ships trains and factories. It notes steam forms from heated water and ice when cooled, and highlights early mediocrity before European machines revived steam driven work.
In 1650 Edward Somerset built a steam fountain at Raglan Castle to raise water in a moat. distant progress followed with a mine draining engine by an Englishman and Thomas Newcomen's steam pump. Denis Papin in France contributed a safety valve and helped steer steam power toward a steamboat attempt which river boatmen halted.
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