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20 ore fa · 1710s. 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston. 1730s. 1730: Thomas Godfrey and John Hadley independently develop the octant; 1733: John Kay enables one person to operate a loom with the flying shuttle