energy conversion: Steam engines. Thomas Savery, an English inventor and military engineer, studied Papinâs work and built a steam-driven suction machine for removing water from coal mines. Saveryâs machine (patented in 1698) consisted of a boiler, a closed, water-filled reservoir, and a series of valves.
How big is the problem? In 2014, 9,967 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1. Of the 1,070 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2014, 209 (19%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.1.
In the United States, the number of drunk driving deaths has been cut in half since MADD was founded in 1980. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. âTraffic Safety Facts 2014: Alcohol-Impaired Driving.â Washington DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2016.