The steam was started to be used in the first stage (1760-1840) of the industrial revolution. Before the application of the steam, many workers had to make the hard work of moving things and carrying heavy stuff. Also the water was one of the most important sources of power. The steam was used to pump water from mines but it wasn’t very efficient. But everything changed when James Watt a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer invented in 1765 the first efficient steam machine used in the industrial revolution.
This invention was so important and very efficient that four years later the textile industry started to use this type of machines. The steam machines were the first step to the industrial development because it can produce faster and it can do it without stopping because it was fuelled principally with coal.
Many of these ideas spread into North-America and Western-Europe and some years later to the whole word. The steam changed the society in an enormous way because it replaced the power of many workers making the production of cloth, machines, metals, etc. more economic, more efficient and faster.
Some years later the textile industry made more improvements to the steam machines; this made the inventors to think in different ways of using the steam. In the first years of the century XIX the steam was used in other industries and activities, such as the transportation industry where the locomotives started to use the steam as power for their engines. And another important activity where the steam was used, was in the furnace, this made more effective the production of metals and new machines that were taken to North-America and Western-Europe.
As a conclusion the steam was a very important step for the industrial revolution, it changed many things in society and the industry. But we have to remember that before James Watt many others inventors and engineers such as Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen contributed to the development of the steam engines.
This invention was so important and very efficient that four years later the textile industry started to use this type of machines. The steam machines were the first step to the industrial development because it can produce faster and it can do it without stopping because it was fuelled principally with coal.
Many of these ideas spread into North-America and Western-Europe and some years later to the whole word. The steam changed the society in an enormous way because it replaced the power of many workers making the production of cloth, machines, metals, etc. more economic, more efficient and faster.
Some years later the textile industry made more improvements to the steam machines; this made the inventors to think in different ways of using the steam. In the first years of the century XIX the steam was used in other industries and activities, such as the transportation industry where the locomotives started to use the steam as power for their engines. And another important activity where the steam was used, was in the furnace, this made more effective the production of metals and new machines that were taken to North-America and Western-Europe.
As a conclusion the steam was a very important step for the industrial revolution, it changed many things in society and the industry. But we have to remember that before James Watt many others inventors and engineers such as Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen contributed to the development of the steam engines.
A Watt steam engine, the steam engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the world
Steam engine designed by Newcomen
Steam engine invented by Boulton and Watt in 1784
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