Salomon de Caus Caus or Caux, Salomon de (both: sälōmôNˈ də kō)
[key] 1576–1626, French engineer and physicist, educated in
England. From 1614 to 1620 he was engineer to the Elector
Palatine, Frederick, at Heidelberg. Because of his Les Raisons
des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (1615), an early
exposition of the principle of steam power, he has been
considered the originator of the steam engine. The Columbia
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