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 1 For    |         his intimate knowledge of Newcomen's steam engine. When, therefore,
 2 For    |     announcement is made that the Newcomen Society proposes to publish
 3 For    |          the steam engine, Thomas Newcomen, and it cannot but be gratifying
 4 Int    |       earlier descriptions of the Newcomen engine, as by Leupold, Switzer,
 5 Int    |       engine, and the author knew Newcomen and his partner Cawley,
 6 Int    | particularly appropriate that the Newcomen society should begin its
 7 Int    |       assist in the erection of a Newcomen engine that he was having
 8 Int    |    account of the manner in which Newcomen was led to direct his attention
 9 Int    |         exacted from users of the Newcomen engine by the Company that
10 Int    |          was nothing to show that Newcomen benefited by these royalties.
11 Int    |           definite statement that Newcomen and Calley did join Savery
12 Int    |           consoling to think that Newcomen did have some share in the
13 Int    |  concerned in the erection of the Newcomen engines, they alone seem
14 Int    |        1717 ("Transactions of the Newcomen Society," Vol. IV., Frontispiece).
15 Int    |            and the Council of the Newcomen Society has to thank the
16 Pre,  1|           Dartmouth, named Thomas Newcomen, without any knowledge whatever
17 Pre,  1|         means of horses which Mr. Newcomen found existing in the English
18 Pre,  1|        tin-mines. These mines Mr. Newcomen often visited in the capacity
19 Pre,  2|         ten consecutive years Mr. Newcomen worked at this fire-machine
20 Pre,  4|       between the inventions, Mr. Newcomen and Calley did not see any
21 Pre,  4|       constitution.) later on Mr. Newcomen erected the first fire-machine
22 Pre,  6|         Castle. But the inventors Newcomen and Calley were very jealous
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