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
James Watt, in 1781, patented steam engine that produced continued rotary motion and the power about 10 hp. It was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum.