The Employee Engine-Impact: The Invention Of The Steam Engine

--Impact Analysis

Before the invention of the steam engine, the only ways of power were by hand, by wind, by water or by animal.

Using boiling water to create mechanical motion goes back over 2000 years, but the earlier devices were not practical. In 1781 James Watt, an Scottish engineer, invented a steam engine that produced rotary motions.

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work, using steam as its working fluid.

This 10-horsepower steam engine made it possible to power a great variety of manufacturing machinery. These engines could be located wherever water and coal or wood could be gained and had an enormous impact on many fields of industry.

The steam engine has marked the end of the use of renewable resources, and started the era of fossil energy sources, such as coal. At that time the people thought that coal was an limitless resource.

To overcome natural obstacles, a system of canals and dams was built. This increased demand for labor prompted tremendous growth along the rivers.

In order to built the railway system, which developed even faster than the river system, the environment had to be made flat and all hindrances had to be removed in order for the tracks to be built. These works offered a huge amount of jobs in the railway sector.

In addition to the evolution of new machines, the stem power allowed the colonial powers to discover lands that they were not able to access before. Because of the difficulties navigating the rivers in Africa the exploration was mostly limited to the coast,. With the steam engine, the industrial powers could start new expeditions to the interior of the continent. The inverntion of the steamboat allowed the Europeans to claim the whole African continent, which had a huge impact on