• @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    The first useful industrial widespread steam engines we low pressure water pumps weren’t they?

    High pressure only came later

    • Raltoid
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      52 years ago

      To be fair, it was low pressure because it operated by creating a partial vacuum from condensing steam.

    • @Zoboomafoo
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      22 years ago

      It took cannon technological development to make the high-pressure chambers for steam engines