What is the First Engine Ever?

[@ouishi9447]

Also shoutout to the guy who discovered fire 💯💯

[@IIISentorIII]

thank you my friend. fun fact: I was also the first and last Human that could not die of old age.

[@theammaer]

No one discovered fire ! It was created by Allah and people knew it since the 1st human on earth (Adam)

[@reinerbraun898]

@@theammaer Oh my gosh shut up you bore 😴

[@____-ui2pt]

Iranians 🇮🇷😌

[@peterkratoska3681]

@@reinerbraun898 its a good thing you said "Gosh" because at least then you will go to "Heck"

[@shoam2103]

The attention to detail is amazing! I can notice where one fact smoothly flows to the next, and each piece of information is clearly segmented. You deserve more subs!

[@BranchEducation]

Much appreciated!

[@atcjoe1600]

How did the valves work? Were they timed with the stroke of the piston mechanically ?

[@JoelLinus]

Yea, but without animating that, it's hard to imagine beforehand how this engine works.@@tokyesa8146

[@jasmijnariel]

​@@tokyesa814612 strokes a minute? I dont think they did it by hand

[@ww2musicmann990]

2 years and bro is still waiting for the answer.

[@noya3004]

​​@@ww2musicmann990nah for real why are they gatekeeping that 😭

[@napa1015]

they were opened and closed manually

[@MrAlexander100]

Man. Your work is amazing, and sooo underrated. Even though i am an engineer and i already knew the concepts, i loved the way you break down and explain the phenomena in such a simple way so that anyone can understand them.

[@BranchEducation]

Thank you! What was your favorite video, and what topics would you like to hear more about?

[@CptChesko]

I love the historical context!

[@BranchEducation]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[@anshik.k.t]

Yeah it's really exciting when you don't like history too much but you get little bit of it in science

[@ProlificPianist]

Did a paper on steam power last semester. Really mind-opening stuff and is the perfect way to understand where much of the world comes from. And what's fun is that many people think that the steam engine is gone, but the reality is that it just evolved to be much more efficient as a turbine than as direct kinetic power. Most of the world runs on steam power via electricity generation rather than it's earlier locomotive usage.

[@monad_tcp]

All electrical power, except wind and solar comes from steam engines.

[@seasong7655]

Very interesting how it works on compression instead of expansion like the modern engines. It wasn't the first engine though, since in ancient greece they already had a spinning steam thingy.

[@stumccabe]

That was merely a toy - since energy couldn't be extracted from it I would say it wasn't an "engine". Newcomen's engine was a practical machine that performed real work.

[@bentwenty3288]

@@stumccabe size it up and bam engine

[@robertwoodroffe123]

@@bentwenty3288 away you go !?.

[@iniquity123]

Ancient Greece knew about static electricity but never created an electric motor.

[@stevecummins324]

@@stumccabe historians may argue it weren't put to work( probably right) ... But that's a poor argument for saying it can't produce usefull work. NB at time of it's documentation they did have pulley drives so could have extracted shaft power. More likely reason for lack of use I recon? .. Cost of fueling a steam boiler verses feeding say a slave.

[@michaniki1684]

Underappreciated video. Thanks for the detailed effort!

[@HyungnamGu]

The first commercial steam-powered device was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery. It used condensing steam to create a vacuum which raised water from below and then used steam pressure to raise it higher. Small engines were effective though larger models were problematic. They had a very limited lift height and were prone to boiler explosions. Savery's engine was used in mines, pumping stations and supplying water to water wheels powering textile machinery.

[@Walter-w9v]

I've never seen any Factories Powered by any Savery Pump or Newcomen Atmospheric Pumps. In Britain from 1800 to 1900. 20,000 Waterwheels decreased in number. Windmills decreased in number. The Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared. The Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10,000,000 !!! For every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 we now had 500 Steam Engines in 1900 !!! That's an increase in total Power output of 500 times for the whole country!!! And consequently it's production capacity. And it was all due to James Watt's Invention of the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine.

[@Kungfujoe1110]

I showed up here after watching the Technology Connection series about lanterns (and, essentially, pre-electricity light), in which he shocked me by mentioning that the (now) basic concepts of combustion weren't understood until the 1770s...That really sparked my interest (no pun intended). I wanted to understand the origins of a piston-driven engine, and this video was a lovely explanation. Now to find a small-scale Newcomen engine to set up in my back yard. I'm sure the wife won't mind XD

[@AugustineAriola]

Very educative. I learn a lot from you. In Africa, teaching is not detailed and no teaching aid for instruction. Your animation simplified the concept. Now I know the myth behind steam engine. Thank you

[@differentgamer7885]

Everyone knows that this channel deserves much more attention, subscriptions and views, and missing all of that on the channel can be a reason to leave KZbin, but you are still going and we, the little part of KZbin who watches your videos respect your work and wish you had as many views and subscribers as you really deserve...

[@BranchEducation]

I'm really glad to have your support! It is a difficult space, but currently it's the only space to build video content.

[@differentgamer7885]

Branch Education are you the one who made that animations? If so, text me and I’ll try to help you out

[@GhostPants0.2]

but you didn't explain how the valves are workimg?how fo they know when to open and close????

[@kimkim-mh7bv]

He is just a fo ol. He only explain on history of machine. He is not explain how the machine really work.

[@bunbunnbunnybun]

@@kimkim-mh7bv did you even watch the video

[@atlas_19]

Well, you can figure it out yourself, although you can't be certain about it. I think it works like this: When water cools down the steam and the pressure in the cylinder goes down, the valve of the boiling water and that other valve which I don't remember the name of opens. And when the steam fills the cylinder again, the valve of the water opens due to high pressure.

[@franksierow5792]

I think the original question has not been answered yet: how are the valves opened and closed? For example, does person need to do manually (at 12 cycles per minute I think that this would be feasible, especially if someone needed to just flip a lever) or is it done by linkages? Or it could be bit of each, with person doing the first openings and closings, and maybe doing timing adjustments while the engine is running. I saw an at least partly manually controlled engine at a museum at Kew, London, UK some years ago.

[@atlas_19]

@@franksierow5792 Well, pressure. I didn't mention it since I thought you would realize pressure was the key element in these.

[@avi12]

4:21 My biggest "aha" moment this year

[@BranchEducation]

Thanks for the compliment! Especially because we are in early October.

[@thiagoaugusto6584]

I would love to see a video in this level of detail about Watt's innovations too. Hell, I would love to see a video in this level of detail about pretty much anything! Congrats! I can only imagine how many hours were spent to achieve such a quality.

[@Shrouded_reaper]

This was sheer and true genius for it's age.

[@shlok975]

I wish to leave my mark before this video explodes.

[@BranchEducation]

Let's hope this video explodes! More people needa share it.

[@amareswarigurujala2441]

Plucked to perfection Thanks

[@deepanshuchaudhary9875]

Really amazing video,, I appreciate your efforts.

[@streettalk4thesoul]

thank you! 👍🏾

[@monicanagaraj1828]

Thank you very much..... nowadays nobody takes time to teach even minute concepts like you're doing........... that was great🥰🥰🥰

[@BranchEducation]

I'm really glad you enjoyed watching it! I hope the extra effort will make the video last longer.

[@s.mcchristy9704]

I would like to see more detail of the valves which made this engine possible. Also it looks like this engine would use a lot of water..?

[@vindolanda6974]

The tree of technology is so important. We take everything for granted these days. We don't realise how our everyday lives were created thanks to some innovators like Newcomen starting three hundred years ago, leading to all comfort and convenience and safety. Without them we would still be riding horses, burning candles for light, living in our villages, and dying early.

[@Walter-w9v]

Newcomen's 70 years long Atmospheric Power was a dead-end branch on that tree. Watt's Steam Power was the root of the modern World.

[@robinh2512]

Great contect and information. Love the video and the animation.

[@BranchEducation]

I'm glad you liked the video!

[@boredgrass]

I considered myself reasonably informed about the subject, but 1710? I never thought that it started so early! Thank you! ❤️

[@bricology]

It actually started more than a decade earlier, with Thomas Savery, who built steam-powered pumps.

[@frederickbowdler8169]

shout out to the girl who found the match and struck it to create fire!!!

[@johnsavard7583]

I thought you would be talking about the aeolipile!

[@visamaparya5293]

Thank u all very much . great work

[@champion_alex]

Great vídeo! Video about fuel cell please!!! and if you can at once recommend some readings!! please!!!!

[@BranchEducation]

Fuel cells would definitely be an interesting topic. I'll consider it!

[@champion_alex]

@@BranchEducation thank you, i hope so!

[@d.harrison1570]

Great video with great graphics.

[@ЭрикКарапетян-в5в]

Thank you for this video! It's really cool!

[@NinjaNuggets21]

Thank you Newcomen!

[@markus129]

According historians and books, the first steam machine was patented by Thomas Savery in 1689. But in 1600, almost one hundred years before, Jerónimo de Ayanz had patented in Spain, one steam machine similar to that patented by Savery. These machines were used to pump out water in flooded mines, and is the first use of steam with industrial purposes; this device it is considered to be the precedents for James Wat's steam engines

[@bigkiwimike]

I could not agree with you more about this engine. Ninety nine percent of people do not realise what we owe to this engine…basically everything! There is not a product or process that could not be traced back to this engine and the ones that came after it. Then there is the subject of metallurgy. Now that we are inventing these new engines, what are we going to make them out of? Let’s invent cast iron. Ok, how are we going to machine it? Let’s invent tool steel. The development of engineering also lead to the creation of new standards. George Whitworth standardised threads, nuts and bolts etc. I would say that the Newcomen engine is the greatest invention of all time, possibly only beaten by the wheel. We can only speculate how the world might have turned out it this engine had not been invented. Great video.

[@bmzaron713]

This is a really great video, thanks so much for sharing it

[@rockets4kids]

If you want to talk about "the first engine *ever*" then you're wrong on at least two counts: 1. Thomas Savery built the first steam-powered mine pump in 1698. 2. Hero built the first steam turbine in the first century AD. The Newcomen Engine was merely the first *practical* engine.

[@martijnverschuren3578]

It al depends on you're definition of engine, in my mind most clock mechanisms are engines to. They go back way earlier.

[@rockets4kids]

@@martijnverschuren3578 That's a fair point, this applies only to steam engines which in turn are a subcategory of heat engines. Clock engines are typically powered by gravity or spring tension and when you include those power sources there are far more exceptions. Even if you limit only to heat engines you still find plenty more examples which pre-date the Newcomen Engine.

[@themechanictangerine]

The first steam-powered mine pump was invented by Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Merely. 😂

[@ShellYoung]

This is what I'm thinking about for a long time. 3D rendered educational videos. Maybe some day it can even become a standard. I can already see where this idea can grow: interactivity, so it becomes Interactive 3D Unreal Engine Educational Simulations. We can expand this even further: VR.

[@BranchEducation]

That's exactly what I was thinking when I started. I even learned a bunch of Unity before deciding to animate in Blender. Making interactive 3d models and lessons are a little ways off still.

[@lordofrims]

It's nothing new... in the 40's to 50's they had those instructional videos of how did certain car parts work from suspension to differential.

[@diegolozano2397]

Fantastic videos

[@juliazhou446]

This is such a great video! what controls the opening of the valves though?

[@IIISentorIII]

hand with fingers or magic

[@jonka1]

The valves were operated by links and rods which were moved by the rising and falling of the inner end of the beam. There were handles attached to them so the could be set by hand to anticipate the starting of the engine.

[@k4be.]

At first, the human operator. But, apparently, some of them were lazy, and fitted automatic mechanisms powered by the pump beam.

[@shahbazstailan4361]

Superb video

[@Machinehead444]

Great video keep em comin

[@eraybulgaria]

This was so entertaining 😭 Everything was explained so well and i got only more curious with every second passed by ❤️😂

[@108Rudi]

Straight outta Devon!

[@engin_oztan8782]

wow, that's the dream, u are making something and whole world changing forever, I can say just "wow"....

[@dannunes652]

great video. that's a lot of steam from one liter!

[@BranchEducation]

Thanks!! I'm glad you liked it!

[@moosaanimma-a8460]

thank you soo much for this knowledge

[@buck_maize111]

Very good explanation.. been trying to get my around how it worked and now I get it 👍

[@foxleaf9867]

Fantastic videos! Subscribed!

[@RixtronixLAB]

Nice video clip, keep it up, thank you for sharing it :)

[@Life_42]

Thank you!

[@marciacunningham5877]

An oil derrick was the tower used for drilling. What you are showing is a pump jack. Michael

[@TheIceGryphon]

ARGH, Real question becomes how are the valves working and how are they piped. Intake manifold and exhaust manifolds are always something I have a hard time picturing in my mind in 3-D models.

[@steveg4511]

Amazing channel

[@jonparry1969]

That's crazy. Always thought as steam bein pressure not a vacuum. Learn something new every day

[@jamescraft2976]

It's insane that so many geniuses lived in england and scotland around the same time!

[@sikable801]

Thank you very much

[@whatyousaidbud]

Brilliant, more please!! 👍

[@davidstewart5811]

Outstanding example.

[@linxbit8984]

oh my goodness i finally understand how pressure works thank you

[@yashmayekar21]

How does the valve changes simultaneously?

[@ELStalky]

My guess would be that they are mechanically linked to the piston, so they can open and close automatically at the right times.

[@BranchEducation]

I left these out with the hopes that if this video were used in a classroom, teachers could ask exactly this question.

[@mesofius]

@@BranchEducation so can you tell us? lol

[@thethirdtomas3]

Wow! Good job explaining this.

[@majulenparah]

How do the valves at the bottom work though? Are they passive, manually manipulated, or some sort of timing adjustment?

[@jxwx3566]

Awesome illustration & explanation... I just read about this & had no idea how it worked

[@salnikandrey]

Wow, thank you! It's amazing!

[@lifeisgood5619]

6:52 thanks for the American metrics

[@johncysamuel]

Thanks 👍❤

[@manfacilitymetalworks1296]

There is a working replica in the Black Country Museum near Birmingham UK. There is also an original one, still in its original building near Barnsley.

[@neilfurby555]

Superb !

[@deezynar]

Newcomen's engine was simple to build at the time with the technology they had. So even though it was not very efficient, it was much better than the animal power that had been powering the pumps before it. The mine owners saw how much better it was and were happy to spend the money to get one. And when Watt made the pitch that a pressure powered engine would use much less fuel to do the same job, the mine owners were happy to pay the higher price for the new engines that were more complicated, and harder to make. Machine tools got more accurate to bore the smoother cylinders that the Watt engines required. A whole cascade of technological improvements were kicked off by Newcomen's invention.

[@michaelszczys8316]

Gotta start somewhere. I remember my grandmother had some ancient encyclopedias and I looked up internal combustion engine and about all it showed was as far as new experimental engines used in the NEW automobiles people were building. It was mostly about the Otto cycle ( as a new thing ) and I vaguely remember it describing someone before Otto trying to make a piston engine run on gun powder. The encyclopedia were so old I remember looking up television and it didn't have ANYTHING I often remembered that that whenever someone like ' Mythbusters ' would bring it up.

[@michaelszczys8316]

The gun powder powered engine that is. ( fixing typos rearranged my message again.)

[@jimmybritt9537]

Very nice demonstration 👍👍🇺🇸

[@Izzy-qf1do]

This is great!

[@BranchEducation]

Glad you liked it!

[@whitemewhite4281]

Ok the guy who made this did not even know this much science he out into it what a guy

[@elainejinxkuehn3886]

It's difficult to see how steam has force and you explained it so well! Comments seem to show what I think! We all want more of these!

[@thaiscristinidesouzaaragao6331]

amazing job!

[@mrnawab6594]

Wonderful

[@edumatechconsulting7755]

Its awesome

[@jamesr8404]

why this channel has only 125k subscribers? This is so underrrated!

[@BranchEducation]

I'll get there in time!

[@memoll_music]

Very very good and useful informations,nice explanation 👌🏻 and professional 3D animations to help explaining, and learning. Thanks so much. My brain blowed up 👋🏻🤯😜

[@Psycandy]

why use a cooling condensing stroke as a power stroke and not the high-pressure steam? If you use steam to drive the piston, the discharge can charge a second, larger piston and that steam, still at pressure, can then charge a third, very large piston. Plus, the ability of the water to cool the steam is limited, requiring extra plumbing to be less efficient than a water jacket. If the piston started at bottom, the rocker alone won't lift the piston - the rocker is like a flywheel; if it was off-balance, it wouldn't work.

[@gangleweed]

It only takes 2 lb of steam pressure to fill a 44 gallon steel drum but when the drum is sealed and the steam condenses the drum will crush under the force of the atmospheric pressure on the outside surface.

[@barttablante8495]

Wow, so good!

[@thorlo1278]

That was awesome! I never even heard of Newcomen's engine! Thank you, not only for the information, but for an awesome video that was made in such detail, each section was made to be understandable!

[@domenicozagari2443]

The Greek steam wheel was the first machine.

[@pranaykothari803]

Thanks, actually I wasn't able to understand how the newcomen engine works, thanks to this cool animation clip I understood every bit of this concept

[@isagenesi1326]

Wow so amazing!

[@someguy2741]

I really like the format. I think your descriptions are good except for the atmospheric pressure. In the case of the steam you are using a change in energy so the balls should bounce a lot and bounce less depending on the energy. The atmospheric is a static pressure so it should be a matrix of balls just sitting on top since their energy is not being discussed. It is essentially an unchanging force like a barbell weight on top of the cylinder.

[@teddybear-g4k]

No. Atmospheric pressure is exactly what this author depicts. It is the sum of the forces that the atmospheric air molecule bounces to the surface divided by area.

[@stevennagley8969]

What did they use in the day to seal the pressure, the ring around the piston, I sorta saw it in the animation, what material did they use and process

[@dariuscroxton1039]

Nice one. I watched both, part 2 first cos that was what i was thinking about. I now know what i thought i knew a bit about before but didn't. Turns out I'm pretty thick. Your video just changed that a little bit. Now to find out how fridges work.

[@Person-sf7ql]

Great video but the title triggered one of my pet peeves. The first steam engine turbine was the Aeolipile. However the engine you described was the first one to be useful in any way shape or form.

[@atousagorg7929]

That was amazing information. Congrats

[@BranchEducation]

Thanks you! It was a great topic to dive into.

[@matthiaswernli5655]

Awesome video! How did you make these animations?

[@Callummullans]

This is amazing I always thought engines began with trains

[@tkirkwood3366]

Thanks

[@Lord_Biyoma]

Nice video you should do a engineering 101 series it would be cool

[@charlesdurrett2878]

Yes. There's one of those (2nd one built?) at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.

[@officialforwardmovement]

This is such an amazing video, crazy how much learning how evolved.

[@timwilliams632]

No it's a confusing, wrong explanation of how the forces are at work

[@pauljs75]

The trick is using some mechanism to control the valve operation. (Not quite shown in this video though, although the rest of the principle behind it is explained.)

[@kingcosworth2643]

I'm surprised there is no footage of the still running example of a Newcomen engine. Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) did a doco called "Massive Machines - Pumps" and there is footage there of a running original Newcomen Engine.

[@leonstansfield]

Here in Cornwall, everyone claims he was born and raised here, not Devon. Not sure how accurate they are, but that's what we were taught.

[@codemang87]

Does anyone know what sort of mechanism he used to control the valves?