energy conversion: Steam engines. Thomas Savery, an English inventor and military engineer, studied Papinâs work and built a steam-driven suction machine for removing water from coal mines. Saveryâs machine (patented in 1698) consisted of a boiler, a closed, water-filled reservoir, and a series of valves.
How big is the problem? In 2014, 9,967 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1. Of the 1,070 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2014, 209 (19%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.1.
Someone is injured every 2 minutes from a drunk driving crash. There are 3 drunk driving deaths per every 100,000 drivers. Drunk driving rates are highest among 21 to 25 year olds (23.4%) 2 out of every 3 people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime. 28 people die per day in the United States from drunk driving (1 every 52 minutes)