Title

Thomas Savery's steam pump or 'the miner's friend', 1702 (1726). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Thomas Savery's steam pump or 'the miner's friend', 1702 (1726). Savery's steam powered pump was used for draining water out of mines. From Lexicon Technicum, by John Harris, 1726.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1726

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_069

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,4Mb (2,9Mb) / 10,4in x 18,9in / 3109 x 5669 (300dpi)

Keywords

technology industry science steam British machine mining pump machinery innovation century mine Britain steam power concept drainage invention B&W steam engine MONOCHROME black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century Oxford Science Archive mine shaft engraving Unknown John Thomas Harris Thomas Savery Savery John Harris Thomas Savery John Harris engraving