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The steam engine was invented by

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James Watt
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Joule
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Newcommen
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Newton
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The correct option is D Newcommen
Thomas Newcomen was an English inventor who created the first practical steam engine in 1712.The first commercially successful true engine, in that it could generate power and transmit it to a machine, was the atmospheric engine, invented by Thomas Newcomen around 1712. It was an improvement over Savery's steam pump, using a piston as proposed by Papin

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