Savery
Proper noun
Meaning
Savery (plural Saverys)
A surname.
Examples
Nevertheless, in 1697, based on Papin's designs, engineer Thomas Savery built the first engine, followed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.
Avilez was killed and Savery was shot in the buttocks - which, most times, doesn't end up in a fatality.
In 1702, Thomas Savery wrote in The Miner's Friend: So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same.
Nevertheless, in 1697, based on Papin's designs, engineer Thomas Savery built the first engine.
Owen described the bones in Memoir on the Dodo in October 1866, but erroneously based his reconstruction on the Edwards's Dodo painting by Savery, making it too squat and obese.
The introduction of the steam pump by Savery in 1698 and the Newcomen steam engine in 1712 greatly facilitated the removal of water and enabled shafts to be made deeper, enabling more coal to be extracted.