It drove the industrial revolution
No. The steam engine came along during the industrial revolution and drove most of the mills and their machinery. It was the primary driving force behind industrialization.
Steam Engine
Steam Engine.
By boling water, usually with coal or wood, thereby making steam that drove pistons under pressure. The pistons were attached to the drive wheels that were usually linked to 'freewheels' and the wheels drove the engine along the 'railway lines'
Steam engine
In the 19th century
The leap in technology from a horse drawn cart, or water wheel, to a steam engine (train on tracks or fixed bed in a factory) was huge, and provided the means for the Industrial Revolution to take off.
No. Not always (but usually), sometimes the process of discovery can be reversed. The steam engine is one example. The only thing the inventors of the steam engine knew was that steam from boiling water could move the engine.
Titanic had three propellers. In the absence of solid proof, historians like Mark Chirnside feel that all three propellers had three blades. Steam engines drove her wing propellers and a steam turbine drove her central propeller. The turbine engine was not reversible although the steam engines were.
I dunno ... grey spirits rising to heaven? Technology (the steam engine) being wasted? That's all I have for now.
people would use resouces that they had around them
Steam engines do not need to be built next to rivers or streams.