How did steam power help contribute to the industrial revolution?

Answer 1

Invented by Robert Fulton the steamboat was a true success. Man could now defy wind, wave, tide and downstream current. Within a few years Fulton changed all of America's navigable streams into two way arteries. This doubled the carrying capacity of people and goods. By 1820 there were 60 steamboats on the Mississippi, by 1860 there were a 1,000 and some of them were river palaces. They played a vital role in opening the West and South and cities grew along the rivers, cotton growers created large plantations because they could ship their crops, and people could get more goods that they needed easier and faster than before.

Answer 2

it help the people send goods to one place to another.
Also used as an extractor to suck water out of coal mines

ANSWER:

The first commercial steam engine was produced in 1698. That year, Thomas Savery, a Cornish army officer, patented a pumping engine that used steam. In 1712, Thomas Newcomen, a Devonshire blacksmith, improved on Savery's engine.

Newcomen's steam engine had serious faults. It wasted much heat and used a great amount in fuel. In the 1760's, James Watt of Scotland began working to improve the steam engine. Watt's engine used heat much more efficiently than Newcomen's engine and used less fuel.

With the invention and work of the steam engine one of its purposes was to be used as an extractor to remove water out of coal mines.
During the industrial revolution, the steam engine was used to power factories,to pump out flooded mines, and in many other applications.

Answer 3

allowed greater transportation.

Answer 4

The steam engine helped people because it was cool and it was helpfull

also the steam engine allowed the united states to expand across land more quickley.

Answer 5

Factories began to be built closer to cities. Workers began to be attracted away from farms and into the cities.

Goods were able to be transported more cheaply.

Answer 6

trains could run longer

Answer 7

it was good

Answer 8

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