Smeaton Engine


Designer: John Smeaton
Location: Long Benton Colliery, Northumberland
Built: 1772
Type: modified Newcomen Engine

Notes: Smeaton took a Newcomen Engine and made it more efficient with better sealing and better measures of the parts



Relevant Web Sites:
http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/jsites/steam_thomas_newcomen.php3?v=2
 


Princeton University.