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Thomas Newcomen

1663 - 1729

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Thomas Newcomen (Dartmouth, 1663 – Londra, 5 agosto 1729) è stato un inventore e fabbro inglese. Leggi di più su Wikipedia

His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 56 in 2024). Thomas Newcomen is the 29th most popular inventore (up from 31st in 2024), the 308th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 222nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Inventore.

Thomas Newcomen is most famous for inventing the first practical steam engine in 1712.

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Among Inventores

Among inventores, Thomas Newcomen ranks 29 out of 426. Before him are Eli Whitney, Lee de Forest, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Werner von Siemens, John Logie Baird, and Denis Papin. After him are Abbas ibn Firnas, Jimmy Wales, Ernő Rubik, Samuel Colt, Gideon Sundback, and John Herschel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1663, Thomas Newcomen ranks 2. Before him is Prince Eugene of Savoy. After him are Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, Árni Magnússon, Guillaume Amontons, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, August Hermann Francke, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Luca Carlevarijs, Agafya Grushetskaya, and Ogata Kenzan. Among people deceased in 1729, Thomas Newcomen ranks 2. Before him is John Law. After him are Jacob Roggeveen, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Jean Meslier, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Johann David Heinichen, and Anthony Collins.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Newcomen ranks 308 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), John Law (1671), Peter Higgs (1929), Harold Godwinson (1022), Henry IV of England (1367), and Michael York (1942). After him are Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Anne Brontë (1820), William Golding (1911), and Thomas Reid (1710).

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Among Inventores In United Kingdom

Among inventores born in United Kingdom, Thomas Newcomen ranks 6. Before him are James Watt (1736), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Charles Babbage (1791), George Stephenson (1781), and John Logie Baird (1888). After him are John Herschel (1792), Frank Whittle (1907), Richard Trevithick (1771), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), and Rowland Hill (1795).

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