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The rotative engine turns a shaft

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Boulton and Watt patented the sun-and-planet gear and began supplying engines that produced continuous rotary motion rather than a reciprocating pump stroke. This is the change that let steam drive a mill, and Boulton's commercial reasoning was explicit: the pumping market was finite, the market for turning machinery was not.

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  1. Story
  2. Boulton and Watt patented the sun-and-planet gear and began supplying engines that produced continuous rotary motion rather than a reciprocating pump stroke. This is the change that let steam drive a mill, and Boulton's commercial reasoning was explicit: the pumping market was finite, the market for turning machinery was not.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The steam engine
  5. Boulton and Watt
  6. The British textile industry
  7. The rotative engine turns a shaft
  8. Connections
  9. The steam engine
  10. Boulton and Watt
  11. The British textile industry
  12. The Newcomen atmospheric engine
  13. Cromford Mill
  14. James Watt
  15. Boulton and Watt
  16. Manchester
  17. Watt patents the separate condenser
  18. The rotative engine turns a shaft
  19. James Watt
  20. The steam engine
  21. Birmingham
  22. Boulton and Watt form their partnership
  23. The rotative engine turns a shaft
  24. The spinning jenny
  25. Raw cotton
  26. The Engels pause
  27. The Factory Inspectorate
  28. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  29. Hargreaves devises the spinning jenny
  30. Crompton completes the spinning mule
  31. The rotative engine turns a shaft
  32. Cartwright patents the power loom
  33. Arkwright's patents are overturned
  34. The handloom weavers are displaced
  35. The Great Exhibition
  36. Evidence
  37. Supports the separate-condenser priority date, the extension of the monopoly to 1800, and the Boulton and Watt licensing model. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted — legislation.gov.uk is blocked from this session. The patent number and the regnal citation of the extending Act are deliberately omitted rather than reconstructed from memory.
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