10 Facts About Thomas Savery

Thomas Savery was an English inventor and engineer.

Thomas Savery invented the first commercially used steam-powered device, a steam pump which is often referred to as the "Savery engine".

Thomas Savery's steam pump was a revolutionary method of pumping water, which solved the problem of mine drainage and made widespread public water supply practicable.

Thomas Savery was born at the manor house of Shilstone, near Modbury, Devon.

Thomas Savery became a military engineer, rising to the rank of captain by 1702, and spent his free time performing experiments in mechanics.

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Thomas Savery worked for the Sick and Hurt Commissioners, contracting the supply of medicines to the Navy Stock Company, which was connected with the Society of Apothecaries.

The patent had no illustrations or even description, but in 1702 Thomas Savery described the machine in his book The Miner's Friend; or, An Engine to Raise Water by Fire, in which he claimed that it could pump water out of mines.

Thomas Savery's was a pistonless pump with no moving parts except from the taps.

In England, Savery's patent meant that Thomas Newcomen was forced to go into partnership with him.

When Papin was back to London in 1707, he was asked by Isaac Newton, new President of the Royal Society after Robert Boyle, Papin's friend, to work with Thomas Savery, who worked for five years with Papin, but never gave any credit nor revenue to the French scientist.