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| c. 1710 |
| | Thomas Newcomen creates a piston steam engine, with the steam condensed in the cylinder by a jet of cold water | |
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| 1764 |
| | James Watt ponders on the inefficiency of contemporary steam engines and invents the condenser | |
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| 1769 |
| | French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle | |
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| 1802 |
| | A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal | |
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| 1803 |
| | Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back | |
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| c. 1813 |
| | William Hedley's Puffing Billy, the first steam locomotive running on smooth rails, goes to work at Wylam colliery | |
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| 1814 |
| | The Times, England's oldest daily newspaper, becomes the first to print on a steam press | |
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| 1832 |
| | The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger | |
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| 1838 |
| | An Irish packet steamer, the Sirius, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, completing the journey to New York in 19 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | Brunel's Great Western, a wooden paddle-steamer, arives in New York the day after the Sirius, with the record for an Atlantic crossing already reduced to 15 days | |
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