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
Thomas Newcomen and a Steam Engine to Remove Water from Mines. Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729) is a third candidate for recognition as 'the one who invented the steam engine .' He built the first atmospheric steam engine as an improvement over Savery's device for removing water from coal mines. Newcomen's steam engine is shown in the illustration at the left.