Around 1710 English ironmonger, Baptist lay preacher, and inventor Thomas Newcomen developed the atmospheric reciprocating engine, which unlike the steam pump (The Miner's Friend) developed by Thomas Savery in 1698, employed a piston in a cylinder, the vacuum pulling the piston down to the bottom of the cylinder when water was injected into it, ...
Rates Of Drunk Driving Arrests. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 1.5 million people were arrested in a given year for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. That means that one out of every 121 licensed drivers were arrested for drunk driving.
1 Drunk driving rates are highest among 21 to 25 year olds (23.4%) 2  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)