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What is the significance of 1712?

• jprete 3y ago
  The first useful steam engine, according to Wikipedia's entry on that year: "The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley, to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England, the first device to make practical use of the power of steam to produce mechanical work."
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  • jacquesm 3y ago
    Exactly. To me that's the first real move on the board to the industrial revolution. Up to there it was a possibility, from there on it was a certainty.
• jacquesm 3y ago
  The starting gun for the industrial revolution.