the first successful engine of this type at the Conygree Coalworks, Tipton, in the West Midlands. A working replica of this engine can be seen at the Black Country Living Museum nearby.

Later life and death

Comparatively little is known of Newcomen's later life. After 1715, the engine affairs were conducted through an unincorporated company, the 'Proprietors of the Invention for Raising Water by Fire'. Its secretary and treasurer was John

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