Where,why,who,when,how the steam engine invented?
The lead up to the invention of the first steam engine, and their purpose. The first recorded steam device, the aeolipile, was invented by Hero of Alexandria (sometimes Heron) in the 1st century AD, but used only as a toy.[1] In 1663, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester published designs for, and may have installed, a steam-powered engine for pumping water at Vauxhall House. George Stephenson – inventor of the first steam locomotive engine for railroads. George Stephenson was born on June 9, 1781, in the coal mining village of Wylam, England. His father, Robert Stephenson, was a poor, hard working man, that supported his family entirely from wages of twelve shillings a week. Wagons loaded with coal passed through Wylam several times a day. These wagons were drawn by horses — locomotives had not yet been invented. George Stephenson’s first job was to watch over a few cows owned by a neighbor which were allowed to feed along the road; George was paid two cents a day to keep the c
