Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — The First Steam Engines. [ARTICLE]

The First Steam Engines.

The first known use of steam to drive a kind of steam engine was described by Hero of Alexandria, probably In the first or second century B. C. But the first real steam engines were those used at the end of the seventeenth and in the early eighteenth centuries for pumping water out of mines. Newcomer’s engine was used In English mines about 1711,