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Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test stand at the company’s Moses Lake, Wash., facility on Wednesday in what was called “a very big deal ...

1664: __Thomas Newcomen, creator of the first practical atmospheric steam engine ... The initial design of Newcomen's engine used a vertical brass cylinder with a piston connected to a rocking ...