The problem that Newcomen’s steam engine solved was pumping water out of mines and according to Wikipedia it caught on in the sense that there were hundreds produced. It seems to me like it was a reasonable solution at the time for the problem of pumping water out of mines for those mines that needed a lot of water pumping.
The problem of pumping water out of mines also doesn’t seem to me new, given that mines existed for a long time.
The problem that Newcomen’s steam engine solved was pumping water out of mines and according to Wikipedia it caught on in the sense that there were hundreds produced. It seems to me like it was a reasonable solution at the time for the problem of pumping water out of mines for those mines that needed a lot of water pumping.
The problem of pumping water out of mines also doesn’t seem to me new, given that mines existed for a long time.