21. What other game has James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, telling you what's wrong with your steam pump ? 22. The invention of steam pumps meant that water could be supplied directly to homes, and pumped upward from fountains. 23. In 1698 Thomas Savery patented a steam pump that used steam in direct contact with the water being pumped. 24. It tried the steam pump of Thomas Savery, a precursor of the steam engine, though this proved a failure. 25. In the 1870s Tregoning had come into prominence, while he invented and patented a mechanical improvement for a steam pump . 26. Hine's " Mechanic and Steam Pump " sold for an artist's record of $ 90, 500 by Christie's in 1994. 27. Water was pumped from the nearby creek into the storage tank by a steam pump , operated from a stationary boiler. 28. In 1698 Savery built a steam pump called The Miner s Friend . It employed both vacuum and pressure. 29. The two steam pumps provided water flow of up two 240 m 3 per hour at a pressure of two atm. 30. With this engine, a steam pump was used to raise water that in turn drove a waterwheel and thus the machinery.
