Industrial Revolution: The Steam Engine

Industrial Revolution: The steam Engine
Most people likely came to school in a car or maybe the bus. The transportation they came to school in is powered by an engine. In the Industrial Revolution, the steam engine was as important as the engine in their car. The steam engine solved the problem in the 19th century of a more powerful source energy, more convenient way to power machinery and a faster way to produce energy.
Before the steam engine, people powered equipment by using natural resources and animals. This was their main source of energy in transporting commodity and crowds. The steam engine was more powerful than these sources and was more reliable. James Watt made a more productive steam engine while Thomas Newcomen created the engine itself. (Lamber) The steam engine was more powerful then the engine people were using at the time. That power comes from somewhere, the coal used for the steam engine cause pollution to

Water was one of the ways to power engine before the steam engine. To work these engine would need a running river to move, causing factories to be near river banks. The steam engine allow factories to be built in barren land, unusable for framing. Allowing the society the ability to generate factories everywhere. When the steam engine appears, more factories were built in convenient places for trades. (McCloskey) Because of the increase of factories, cities soon became overpopulated and dirty. This create an dangerous living environment for factories worker and their family. (Urbanization.)
The invention of the steam engine created a faster way to produce products. These factory created products quicker then being made by hand. More jobs were being handed out due to the need for worker in the fast production of creating merchandise. The steam engine allow machines to be power at a fast past due to it faster way of producing energy compared to the water engine.