• @[email protected]
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    141 year 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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      51 year ago

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

    • @Zoboomafoo
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      21 year ago

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