Steam Engine
1712
Thomas Newcomen built the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines.
- Type
- Event
- Date
- 1712
- Place
- England
Who was alive during Steam Engine
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716, philosopher and mathematician
- Daniel Defoe c. 1660–1731, writer
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
- Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741, composer
- Blackbeard c. 1680–1718, pirate
- Calico Jack 1682–1720, pirate
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750, composer
- Mary Read c. 1685–1721, pirate
- Daniel Fahrenheit 1686–1736, physicist
- Montesquieu 1689–1755, political philosopher
- Anne Bonny c. 1697–c. 1782, pirate
- Baal Shem Tov c. 1698–1760, rabbi
- John Wesley 1703–1791, religious leader
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
- Carl Linnaeus 1707–1778, biologist
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783, mathematician
- David Hume 1711–1776, philosopher
- Frederick the Great 1712–1786, king
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778, philosopher