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“SAVER.Y, Newcomen, Smeaton, the famous Watt, Woolf, Trevithick, and some other English engineers were the veritable creators of the steam engine,” said Sadi Carnot in his essay of 1824, while a year ago the Engineer, on the occasion of the death of Sir Charles Parsons, remarked that “to Great Britain belongs the credit for the origination of nearly all the fundamental inventions for the production and industrial utilisation of heat energy”.
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Sir Charles Parsons and his Work. Nature 129, 747–748 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129747a0
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