Did China have the ability to make steam engines in the Ming Dynasty?

When the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) perished, the steam engine had not yet appeared.

About 1679, the French physicist Dennis Papen made the working model of the first steam engine after observing the steam escaping from his pressure cooker. Contemporary Samuel Moran also put forward the idea of steam engine.

Thomas Seville made an early industrial steam engine in 1698, and Thomas Newcomen made an early industrial steam engine in 17 12. They all made their own contributions to the development of steam engines. 1807, robert fulton was the first to successfully use a steam engine to drive a ship. Using scientific theory, Watt gradually discovered the faults of this steam engine. From 1765 to 1790, he made a series of inventions, such as separate condenser, cylinder external insulation layer, piston lubricated with oil, planetary gear, parallel linkage mechanism, centrifugal governor, throttle valve, pressure gauge and so on. , make the efficiency of the steam engine to more than three times that of the original newcomen machine, and finally invented the industrial steam engine.