The first steam engine in the world was invented and manufactured by French physicist Denis Papan in 1688, and it had a cylinder and a piston. However, Papan's invention was not actually applied to industrial production. Ten years later, an Englishman, toy Seville, invented the steam pump, which was mainly used for pumping water in mines. 1705, after long-term research, newcomen synthesized the advantages invented by Papan and Seville, and created the air steam engine.
Watt is only the inventor of improving the steam engine, not the first person to invent it. In the 1st century AD, Alexander Hiro designed a similar machine .. 1698, and Thomas Zavili obtained the patent right to pump water with a steam engine. 17 12, Thomas Coleman, an Englishman, obtained a slightly improved patent for a steam engine. Niukaomen steam engine is inefficient and can only be used for coal mine drainage.