GK
INVENTIONS
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Question
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____ and ____ developed steam engines in which tubes had to be heated and cooled repeatedly.
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Papin
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Newcomen
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Nelson
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Gatling
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. It was the first machine to be powered by steam and was largely used to pump water out of mines. Hundreds of these engines were made and used all over Britain and Europe in the 1700s.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Newcomen Memorial Engine in Dartmouth, England. in 1698, employed a piston in a cylinder, the vacuum pulling the piston down to the bottom of the cylinder when water was injected into it, cooling the steam.
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