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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- The steam engineconcerns
- Boulton and Wattconcerns
- The British textile industryconcerns
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