The invention of the first practical steam engine, the atmospheric engine, was completed by whom? MCQ with Answer and Explanation

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The invention of the first practical steam engine, the atmospheric engine, was completed by whom?
A. Thomas Savery
B. George Stephenson
C. Thomas Newcomen
D. James Watt
Answer: Option C
Solution (By JKSSB Mock Tests)
Thomas Newcomen constructed the first practical piston-driven condensing atmospheric engine in 1712 to pump water from mines.
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