Webster Family History | Find Genealogy Records & Family Crest. Webster Genealogy & History. Webster is an English and Scottish name describing a weaver, similar to Weaver, Weber, and Webb. Derived from Old English webbestre, meaning female weaver, during medieval times webbe could distinguish a male weaver and webster a female one.
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Using boiling water to produce mechanical motion goes back over 2000 years, but early devices were not practical. The Spanish inventor Jeronimo jerÃ³nimo De ayanz Y beaumont patented in 1606 the first steam. Engine in 1698 Thomas savery patented a steam pump that used steam in direct contact with the water being. pumped
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Using boiling water to produce mechanical motion goes back about 2,000 years, but early devices were not practical. Since the late 1700s steam engines have become a major source of mechanical power.oulton and Watt's early engines used half as much coal as John Smeaton's improved version of Newcomen's. Newcomen's and Watt's early engines were atmospheric. They were powered by air pressure pushing a piston into the partial vacuum generated by condensing steam, instead of the pressure of expanding steam.