WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Industrial Revolution is most often associated with the application of steam power to transportation and production, resulting in the rise of railways, steamships and factories. In fact, it was water, not steam, power that was the driving force behind the earliest stages of industrialization in Britain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Early factories used water for power and were usually located along a river. Later factories were powered by steam and, eventually, electricity. Many factories during the Industrial Revolution had dormitories on site where the workers lived.

Detailed explanation-3: -They were powered by air pressure pushing a piston into the partial vacuum generated by condensing steam, instead of the pressure of expanding steam. The engine cylinders had to be large because the only usable force acting on them was atmospheric pressure.

Detailed explanation-4: -1788: Watt builds the first steam engine to use a centrifugal governor for the Boulton & Watt Soho factory.

Detailed explanation-5: -That source was fossil fuels-coal, oil, and natural gas, though coal led the way-formed underground from the remains of plants and animals from much earlier geologic times. When these fuels were burned, they released energy, originally from the Sun, that had been stored for hundreds of millions of years.