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  Steam timeline
     
c. 75
 
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Hero, a Greek scientist in Alexandria, devises various forms of steam engine      
1690
 
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The French scientist Denis Papin, while professor of mathematics at Marburg, develops the first steam engine to use a piston       
1698
 
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Thomas Savery creates the first practical steam engine, designed to pump water out of mines       
c. 1710
 
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Thomas Newcomen creates a piston steam engine, with the steam condensed in the cylinder by a jet of cold water       
Newcomen's steam engine, engraving 1836
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1764
 
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James Watt ponders on the inefficiency of contemporary steam engines and invents the condenser       
1769
 
    
French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle