INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
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France decided that steam engines were too harmful to the environment.
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France lacked significant coal reserves.
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France saw its rivers as its greatest natural resource.
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France lacked the technology to build steam engines.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When France industrialized, why did its factories rely more on waterpower than steam power? France lacked significant coal reserves. What invention made the expansion of the steel industry in the American Midwest possible? interchangeable parts.
Detailed explanation-2: -France later had to import coal from Great Britain and from Belgium, because it lacked significant reserves of its own. As a result, France’s factories relied more on waterpower than steam power. The United States As in France, early industry in the United States depended on waterpower, abundant in New England.
Detailed explanation-3: -The steam engine turned the wheels of mechanized factory production. Its emergence freed manufacturers from the need to locate their factories on or near sources of water power. Large enterprises began to concentrate in rapidly growing industrial cities.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most historians are agreed that the principal reason why France did not have an industrial revolution at the same time as Britain was the Page 4 dislocation caused by the French revolution of 1789, which disturbed the regular rhythm of French economy.
Detailed explanation-5: -Why was the steam engine so important to the Industrial Revolution? Steam engines provided power to the new machines. Before steam engines machines were powered by using river water turning wheels that ran the machines. With steam engines, machines could be built anywhere.