WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Inventions were the final ingredient for industrialism. Who invented the first steam engine?
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Eli Whitney
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George Washington
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James Watts
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -James Watt did not invent the steam engine. He did, however, improve the engine apparatus. In 1764 Watt observed a flaw in the Newcomen steam engine: it wasted a lot of steam. Watt deduced that the waste resulted from the steam engine’s single-cylinder design.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first viable steam engine was developed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712; it used the simple principle of atmospheric expansion and condensation to create a vertical beam motion of around ten strokes per minute.
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