CHAPTER III.

ENGINES OF SAVERY AND NEWCOMEN.

Savery's Engine. -- Boilers and their Appendages. -- Working

Apparatus. -- Mode of Operation. -- Defects of the Engine. --

Newcomen and Cawley. -- Atmospheric Engine. -- Accidental

discovery of Condensation by Jet. -- Potter's discovery of the

Method of working the Valves. 51

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