Talk:Thomas Newcomen/Material from Wikipedia user Dr. Gabriel Gojon/References and Chronology
References A History of Western Technology , Friedrich Klemm, (Cambridge, Mass MIT Press, 1964). GW. Leibniz: Selections, ed. Philip P. Wiener (New Yonk: C. Scribner, 1951). Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters, ed. LeRoy E. Loemker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956). Leibnizens and Huygens's Briefwechsel mit Papin, ed. Dr. Ernst Gerland (Berlin: Verlag der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschahen, 1881). "The Heat Engine Idea in the 17th Century," Rhys Jenkins, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 17, pp. 1-11, (1936-37). So, You Wish to Learn All About Economics, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., (Washington, D.C.:EIR News Service, Inc., 2nd ed., 1995)
Chronology: Steam Power Versus The Royal Society Return to Top 1666: Louis XIV's Minister Jean Baptiste Colbert establishes the Academy of Sciences, appointing the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens as the academy's president. Huygens program includes "research into the power of water converted by fire into steam." 1672: Papin and Leibniz join the Academy. 1673: Huygens successfully demonstrates his gunpowder-fueled engine, suggesting that his invention "permits the discovery of new kinds of vehicles on land and water. And although it may sound contradictory it seems not impossible to devise some vehicle to move through the air." 1675: Leibniz completes his development of the differential calculus. Anti-Colbert factions force Papin, Leibniz, and later Huygens to leave France. 1680: In London, Papin continues research into control of high pressure steam; he invents the steam pressure cooker and safety valve. 1687: Papin proposes the pneumatic transmission of power from water wheels near rivers to remote regions in order to facilitate the rapid spread of industrialization. 1690: The Steam Age begins with Papin's invention of the atmospheric steam engine; Papin proposes its application to powering a paddlewheel- driven ship. 1692: Papin and Leibniz begin intensive correspondence. 1695: Papin publishes a summary of his inventions, including the Hessian bellows, an improved furnace designed to multiply efficiency, the pumping of mines using the pneumatic transmission of power, the atmospheric steam engine, and the "plunging boat" (submarine). 1697: Papin's summary is reviewed in the Philosophical Transactions of the British Royal Society and circulated throughout England. 1698: Papin constructs a steam-powered atmospheric pump. Leibniz and Papin begin the project of harnessing the direct force of high pressure steam; Papin constructs "a little model of a carriage that is moved forward by this force." 1699: Thomas Savery is awarded an exclusive patent for the "fire engine" by the English Parliament. 1704: "Hanoverian envoys" to London smuggle Savery's blueprints back into Germany; Leibniz concludes that Savery's design could not work in full size. 1707: Papin publishes a complete account of his direct action steam engine, and tests it successfully against Savery's design. 1708: In London, Papin proposes that the Royal Society allocate 15 pounds sterling to allow him to construct his engine "and to fit it so that it may be applied for the moving of ships. This Engine may be tried for an hour and more, together with some other made after the Saveryan method." Royal Society president-for-life Isaac Newton, backed by Savery, rejects Papin's proposal. 1708-1712: The Royal Society appropriates Papin's researches without remuneration. 1712: Papin "disappears." The first Newcomen engine, limited to pumping water from flooded mines, is erected. 1807: American artist, inventor, and diplomat Robert Fulton achieves the world's first commercially successful steamship voyage with his Hudson River paddlewheeler, The Clermont. Fulton proposes that his inventions, including the submarine and the torpedo, be applied forthwith to destroy the "monstrous government" of England.¨