In 1712, an ironmonger named Thomas Newcomen built a machine in Dudley, England that changed the world. Not immediately. Not obviously. The Newcomen engine was crude, inefficient, and mostly used to pump water out of coal mines. Nobody standing next to it would have recognized they were watching the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. They […]
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