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"coal burning became widespread enough to inspire laws against its use due to the smoke and pollution burning it produced. Nonetheless the market for coal continued to grow as it preserved the limited timber growth. The hungry market required a solution to a problem that challenged the British mining industry. This solution was Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 invention of a simple single-piston pump, the first machine to successfully direct steam to produce work."

300 fucking years.