What is the First Engine Ever?
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- How does water, fire, steam, and metalworking ignite a revolution? Here we explore exactly how the first steam engine, The Newcomen Atmospheric Engine works, and why it was revolutionary!
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Table of Contents:
1:16 Components and Function of the Newcomen Engine
3:55 How a vacuum can generate power
6:17 How much does water expand when evaporated?
7:37 Igniting a revolution in technology
Background Understanding:
Steam, Boiling Water, Air/ Steam Particles
Branches to:
Traction Engines. Understanding Air.
Animation built using Blender 2.79b
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
Sound editing with Reaper
Website: www.branch.education
Twitter: @teddytablante
Made by Teddy Tablante
Work Cited:
Carl Lira. "Brief History of the Steam Engine" www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/st... Visited September 2019
Black Country Living Museum. www.bclm.co.uk/locations/newc... Visited September 2019
Animated Engines. "Newcomen Atmospheric Engine" www.animatedengines.com/newcom... Visited September 2019
"Thomas Newcomen and the Steam Engine Engineering and Technology History" December 2003. ethw.org/Thomas_Newcomen_and_... Visited September 2019
Wikipedia contributors. "Beam Engine." "History of the Steam Engine." "James Watt." "Newcomen Atmospheric Engine." "Thomas Newcomen." "Steam." "Steam Engine." "Thomas Savery." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited September 2019
Image usage from Europeana www.europeana.eu/ in order:
Map of England and Wales and surrounding seas
Mine from "Popular Lectures on Geology, treated in a comprehensive manner ... Translated
by ... J. G. Morris, and edited by Professor F. Hall"
Engineering: a Newcomen steam-engine. Engraving, 174
James Watt from "The first century of the Republic. A review of American progress. By ... T. D. W., ... F. A. P. Barnard [and others]"
(fi) valokuva kuvasta, jossa höyrymoottori konehallissa; taulussa teksti: 3400 I.H.P. steam engine built by Engineering Works "Nederland" at Ysselmonde
Elektriska maskiner. The complete turbine generators ready -
Lokomotiv No 95, tillverkat vid Pittsburgh Locomotive Works."The heaviest and most powerful locomotive in the world", oktober 1898
Utställningen Bygga & Bo i Uddevalla år 1936
traction engine from "The Traveller's Album and Hotel Guide: containing views of places and buildings of historical and general interest, with descriptive letterpress; an account of the principal railways out of London, etc" -
Skærbækværket, Turbiner
(nl) Vliegtuig van de gebroeders Wright in vlucht; Aéroplane Wright -
Norra Droskstationen.Två automobiler och fyra hästdrosker.I bil nr.2 från vänster sitter Carl Johan Johansson (född 1885) -
Locomotivă cu aburi tip 50065 -
(de) Flugzeug Arado (Ar) 79 B
Adler Trumpf
An express locomotive in a railway line. Colour lithograph
Lokomotiv No 95, tillverkat vid Pittsburgh Locomotive Works."The heaviest and most powerful locomotive in the world", oktober 1898
#Steam #Engine #FirstEver
Also shoutout to the guy who discovered fire 💯💯
thank you my friend.
fun fact:
I was also the first and last Human that could not die of old age.
No one discovered fire !
It was created by Allah and people knew it since the 1st human on earth (Adam)
@@theammaer Oh my gosh shut up you bore 😴
Iranians 🇮🇷😌
@@reinerbraun898 its a good thing you said "Gosh" because at least then you will go to "Heck"
How did the valves work? Were they timed with the stroke of the piston mechanically ?
Yea, but without animating that, it's hard to imagine beforehand how this engine works.@@tokyesa8146
@@tokyesa814612 strokes a minute? I dont think they did it by hand
2 years and bro is still waiting for the answer.
@@ww2musicmann990nah for real why are they gatekeeping that 😭
they were opened and closed manually
Very interesting how it works on compression instead of expansion like the modern engines. It wasn't the first engine though, since in ancient greece they already had a spinning steam thingy.
That was merely a toy - since energy couldn't be extracted from it I would say it wasn't an "engine". Newcomen's engine was a practical machine that performed real work.
@@stumccabe size it up and bam engine
@@bentwenty3288 away you go !?.
Ancient Greece knew about static electricity but never created an electric motor.
@@stumccabe historians may argue it weren't put to work( probably right) ... But that's a poor argument for saying it can't produce usefull work. NB at time of it's documentation they did have pulley drives so could have extracted shaft power. More likely reason for lack of use I recon? .. Cost of fueling a steam boiler verses feeding say a slave.
The attention to detail is amazing! I can notice where one fact smoothly flows to the next, and each piece of information is clearly segmented. You deserve more subs!
Much appreciated!
but you didn't explain how the valves are workimg?how fo they know when to open and close????
He is just a fo ol. He only explain on history of machine. He is not explain how the machine really work.
@@kimkim-mh7bv did you even watch the video
Well, you can figure it out yourself, although you can't be certain about it. I think it works like this: When water cools down the steam and the pressure in the cylinder goes down, the valve of the boiling water and that other valve which I don't remember the name of opens. And when the steam fills the cylinder again, the valve of the water opens due to high pressure.
I think the original question has not been answered yet: how are the valves opened and closed? For example, does person need to do manually (at 12 cycles per minute I think that this would be feasible, especially if someone needed to just flip a lever) or is it done by linkages? Or it could be bit of each, with person doing the first openings and closings, and maybe doing timing adjustments while the engine is running. I saw an at least partly manually controlled engine at a museum at Kew, London, UK some years ago.
@@franksierow5792 Well, pressure. I didn't mention it since I thought you would realize pressure was the key element in these.
I love the historical context!
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Yeah it's really exciting when you don't like history too much but you get little bit of it in science
4:21 My biggest "aha" moment this year
Thanks for the compliment! Especially because we are in early October.
Man. Your work is amazing, and sooo underrated. Even though i am an engineer and i already knew the concepts, i loved the way you break down and explain the phenomena in such a simple way so that anyone can understand them.
Thank you! What was your favorite video, and what topics would you like to hear more about?
Did a paper on steam power last semester. Really mind-opening stuff and is the perfect way to understand where much of the world comes from. And what's fun is that many people think that the steam engine is gone, but the reality is that it just evolved to be much more efficient as a turbine than as direct kinetic power. Most of the world runs on steam power via electricity generation rather than it's earlier locomotive usage.
All electrical power, except wind and solar comes from steam engines.
I showed up here after watching the Technology Connection series about lanterns (and, essentially, pre-electricity light), in which he shocked me by mentioning that the (now) basic concepts of combustion weren't understood until the 1770s...That really sparked my interest (no pun intended). I wanted to understand the origins of a piston-driven engine, and this video was a lovely explanation.
Now to find a small-scale Newcomen engine to set up in my back yard. I'm sure the wife won't mind XD
The first commercial steam-powered device was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery. It used condensing steam to create a vacuum which raised water from below and then used steam pressure to raise it higher. Small engines were effective though larger models were problematic. They had a very limited lift height and were prone to boiler explosions. Savery's engine was used in mines, pumping stations and supplying water to water wheels powering textile machinery.
I've never seen any Factories Powered by any Savery Pump or Newcomen Atmospheric Pumps.
In Britain from 1800 to 1900.
20,000 Waterwheels decreased in number.
Windmills decreased in number.
The Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared.
The Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10,000,000 !!!
So for every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 we now had 500 Steam Engines!!!
That's an increase in total Power output of 500 times for the whole country!!! And consequently it's production capacity.
And it was all due to James Watt's Invention of the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine.
I would love to see a video in this level of detail about Watt's innovations too. Hell, I would love to see a video in this level of detail about pretty much anything! Congrats! I can only imagine how many hours were spent to achieve such a quality.
Every once in a while there comes along a video that just blows everything else out of the water. This is that video.
Underappreciated video. Thanks for the detailed effort!
I considered myself reasonably informed about the subject, but 1710? I never thought that it started so early! Thank you! ❤️
Everyone knows that this channel deserves much more attention, subscriptions and views, and missing all of that on the channel can be a reason to leave CZcams, but you are still going and we, the little part of CZcams who watches your videos respect your work and wish you had as many views and subscribers as you really deserve...
I'm really glad to have your support! It is a difficult space, but currently it's the only space to build video content.
Branch Education are you the one who made that animations? If so, text me and I’ll try to help you out
After watching a video on the Titanic, I wanted to know the where, when and how of steam engines. Your videos have been a fantastic find. Thank you very much.
Yu the 1st engineer to explain this amazing invention. Where would the world be at without this one great invention.
I wish to leave my mark before this video explodes.
Let's hope this video explodes! More people needa share it.
The tree of technology is so important. We take everything for granted these days. We don't realise how our everyday lives were created thanks to some innovators like Newcomen starting three hundred years ago, leading to all comfort and convenience and safety. Without them we would still be riding horses, burning candles for light, living in our villages, and dying early.
Newcomen's 70 years long Atmospheric Power was a dead-end branch on that tree.
Watt's Steam Power was the root of the modern World.
Very educative. I learn a lot from you. In Africa, teaching is not detailed and no teaching aid for instruction. Your animation simplified the concept. Now I know the myth behind steam engine.
Thank you
Plucked to perfection
Thanks
I would like to see more detail of the valves which made this engine possible. Also it looks like this engine would use a lot of water..?
This is what I'm thinking about for a long time. 3D rendered educational videos. Maybe some day it can even become a standard. I can already see where this idea can grow: interactivity, so it becomes Interactive 3D Unreal Engine Educational Simulations. We can expand this even further: VR.
That's exactly what I was thinking when I started. I even learned a bunch of Unity before deciding to animate in Blender. Making interactive 3d models and lessons are a little ways off still.
It's nothing new... in the 40's to 50's they had those instructional videos of how did certain car parts work from suspension to differential.
ARGH, Real question becomes how are the valves working and how are they piped. Intake manifold and exhaust manifolds are always something I have a hard time picturing in my mind in 3-D models.
Awesome illustration & explanation... I just read about this & had no idea how it worked
If you want to talk about "the first engine *ever*" then you're wrong on at least two counts:
1. Thomas Savery built the first steam-powered mine pump in 1698.
2. Hero built the first steam turbine in the first century AD.
The Newcomen Engine was merely the first *practical* engine.
It al depends on you're definition of engine, in my mind most clock mechanisms are engines to.
They go back way earlier.
@@martijnverschuren3578 That's a fair point, this applies only to steam engines which in turn are a subcategory of heat engines. Clock engines are typically powered by gravity or spring tension and when you include those power sources there are far more exceptions. Even if you limit only to heat engines you still find plenty more examples which pre-date the Newcomen Engine.
The first steam-powered mine pump was invented by Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont.
Merely. 😂
Very good explanation.. been trying to get my around how it worked and now I get it 👍
Wow! Good job explaining this.
Thank u all very much . great work
An oil derrick was the tower used for drilling. What you are showing is a pump jack. Michael
Brilliant, more please!! 👍
This is a really great video, thanks so much for sharing it
Wow, thank you! It's amazing!
Thanks, actually I wasn't able to understand how the newcomen engine works, thanks to this cool animation clip I understood every bit of this concept
This was so entertaining 😭 Everything was explained so well and i got only more curious with every second passed by ❤️😂
Very very good and useful informations,nice explanation 👌🏻 and professional 3D animations to help explaining, and learning.
Thanks so much. My brain blowed up
👋🏻🤯😜
Thank you very much..... nowadays nobody takes time to teach even
minute concepts like you're doing........... that was great🥰🥰🥰
I'm really glad you enjoyed watching it! I hope the extra effort will make the video last longer.
Thank you for this video! It's really cool!
Really amazing video,, I appreciate your efforts.
Fantastic videos! Subscribed!
That's crazy. Always thought as steam bein pressure not a vacuum. Learn something new every day
Great contect and information. Love the video and the animation.
I'm glad you liked the video!
It only takes 2 lb of steam pressure to fill a 44 gallon steel drum but when the drum is sealed and the steam condenses the drum will crush under the force of the atmospheric pressure on the outside surface.
This is just so damn beautiful! Looking forward to more of your work bud!😄💎
Awesome video!
How did you make these animations?
wow, that's the dream, u are making something and whole world changing forever, I can say just "wow"....
How does the valve changes simultaneously?
My guess would be that they are mechanically linked to the piston, so they can open and close automatically at the right times.
I left these out with the hopes that if this video were used in a classroom, teachers could ask exactly this question.
@@BranchEducation so can you tell us? lol
Great video keep em comin
Nice one. I watched both, part 2 first cos that was what i was thinking about. I now know what i thought i knew a bit about before but didn't. Turns out I'm pretty thick. Your video just changed that a little bit. Now to find out how fridges work.
oh my goodness i finally understand how pressure works thank you
Great video with great graphics.
Nice video clip, keep it up, thank you for sharing it :)
This is such a great video! what controls the opening of the valves though?
hand with fingers or magic
The valves were operated by links and rods which were moved by the rising and falling of the inner end of the beam. There were handles attached to them so the could be set by hand to anticipate the starting of the engine.
At first, the human operator. But, apparently, some of them were lazy, and fitted automatic mechanisms powered by the pump beam.
thank you soo much for this knowledge
Thank you Newcomen!
6:52 thanks for the American metrics
I'm surprised there is no footage of the still running example of a Newcomen engine. Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) did a doco called "Massive Machines - Pumps" and there is footage there of a running original Newcomen Engine.
Ok the guy who made this did not even know this much science he out into it what a guy
Thank you!
I really like the format. I think your descriptions are good except for the atmospheric pressure. In the case of the steam you are using a change in energy so the balls should bounce a lot and bounce less depending on the energy. The atmospheric is a static pressure so it should be a matrix of balls just sitting on top since their energy is not being discussed. It is essentially an unchanging force like a barbell weight on top of the cylinder.
No. Atmospheric pressure is exactly what this author depicts. It is the sum of the forces that the atmospheric air molecule bounces to the surface divided by area.
And none of this would have been possible without the discovery of fire.
I like your video's. keep up with never video's like this I leaned lots from your video's
Thanks, will do!
There is a working replica in the Black Country Museum near Birmingham UK.
There is also an original one, still in its original building near Barnsley.
Wow so amazing!
Great video! Arguably the first steam engine was Heron's aeolipile!
Newcomen's engine was simple to build at the time with the technology they had.
So even though it was not very efficient, it was much better than the animal power that had been powering the pumps before it.
The mine owners saw how much better it was and were happy to spend the money to get one. And when Watt made the pitch that a pressure powered engine would use much less fuel to do the same job, the mine owners were happy to pay the higher price for the new engines that were more complicated, and harder to make. Machine tools got more accurate to bore the smoother cylinders that the Watt engines required. A whole cascade of technological improvements were kicked off by Newcomen's invention.
Gotta start somewhere.
I remember my grandmother had some ancient encyclopedias and I looked up internal combustion engine and about all it showed was as far as new experimental engines used in the NEW automobiles people were building.
It was mostly about the Otto cycle
( as a new thing ) and I vaguely remember it describing someone before Otto trying to make a piston engine run on gun powder.
The encyclopedia were so old I remember looking up television and it didn't have ANYTHING
I often remembered that that whenever someone like ' Mythbusters ' would bring it up.
The gun powder powered engine that is.
( fixing typos rearranged my message again.)
How do the valves at the bottom work though? Are they passive, manually manipulated, or some sort of timing adjustment?
amazing job!
thank you! 👍🏾
Wow, so good!
This looks the same as the Cornish Machine still functioning in The Cruquius gemaal in Haarlemmermeer in The Netherlands.
The main cylinder with a diameter of 3,6 meters driving 8 pumps like the one here.
Each stroke delivers 64 cubic meters of water 5 meter higher!
Thank you very much
Superb !
Straight outta Devon!
Nice video you should do a engineering 101 series it would be cool
This is great!
Glad you liked it!
Outstanding example.
Wonderful
Superb video
Missed a marketing opportunity to call it the 'NewCummins Turbo Steam Engine'.
The trick is using some mechanism to control the valve operation. (Not quite shown in this video though, although the rest of the principle behind it is explained.)
Amazing channel
Very impressive
great video. that's a lot of steam from one liter!
Thanks!! I'm glad you liked it!
Yes. There's one of those (2nd one built?) at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.
Great vídeo!
Video about fuel cell please!!! and if you can at once recommend some readings!! please!!!!
Fuel cells would definitely be an interesting topic. I'll consider it!
@@BranchEducation thank you, i hope so!
It depends on your definition of an engine. Heron of Alexandria invented many steam/atmospheric engines. Waterwheels were in use already in the bronze age.
Fantastic videos
That was awesome! I never even heard of Newcomen's engine! Thank you, not only for the information, but for an awesome video that was made in such detail, each section was made to be understandable!
Great video but the title triggered one of my pet peeves. The first steam engine turbine was the Aeolipile. However the engine you described was the first one to be useful in any way shape or form.
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Well done, amazing content, especially for high school students, cudos to you!
Try to get to nebula, your chanell would explode there
Not sure I'm familiar with nebula.
Also thanks for the appreciation!
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I thought you would be talking about the aeolipile!
Newcomen steam engine circa 1750 at the Henry Ford museum Dearborn MI ( acquired 1929)
Wow, I had no idea how powerful atmospheric pressure was.
Or the vacuum?🤔
This is amazing I always thought engines began with trains
Much as a Brit and a Scot (James Watt), I would like to claim credit for the first engine, The Egyptians had a steam turbine engine in the 1st century called the Aeolipile.
I mean the ptolemys. but yeah.
Oh i always thought the steam was the power, but it was the atmosphere!? 😮😮
Thanks