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.
The effects of drunk driving can be fatal. Each year in the United States approximately 17,500 people are killed in alcohol related motor vehicle accidents. Forty one percent of all motor vehicle accident fatalities are alcohol related.