Webster Family History | Find Genealogy Records & Family Crest. Webster Genealogy & History. Webster is an English and Scottish name describing a weaver, similar to Weaver, Weber, and Webb. Derived from Old English webbestre, meaning female weaver, during medieval times webbe could distinguish a male weaver and webster a female one.
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Using boiling water to produce mechanical motion goes back over 2000 years, but early devices were not practical. The Spanish inventor Jeronimo jerÃ³nimo De ayanz Y beaumont patented in 1606 the first steam. Engine in 1698 Thomas savery patented a steam pump that used steam in direct contact with the water being. pumped
In 1698, English engineer, Thomas Savery patented the first crude steam engine. Savery used his invention to pump water out of a coal mine. In 1712, English engineer and blacksmith, Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine. The purpose of Newcomen's steam engine was also to remove water from mines. In 1765, Scottish engineer, James Watt began studying Thomas Newcomen's steam engine and invented an improved version. It was Watt's engine that was the first to have a rotary motion. James Watt's design was the one that succeeded and the use of steam engines became widespread.