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The steam engine helped to power the Industrial Revolution. Before steam power, most factories and mills were powered by water, wind, horse, or man. Water was a good source of power, but factories had to be located near a river.
Steam power is used today as a form of power for many things. Some of these include powering factories and mills.
The earliest mills were powered with horses or mules in a rotary turnstyle, as seen in the Beverly Cotton Manufactory, however later mills used water power, since that was less interruptable and provided more power for the factories.
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At first water power was the primary power source. Factories were built on the banks of rivers, and huge water wheels driven by the flow of the river would power the factory. Then the invention of the steam engine made it possible to build factories almost anywhere, and steam engines replaced water wheels as the primary power source in factories.
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Most factories were built near water to power the machines.
Most factories were built near water to power the machines.
Factories could be built away from rivers using this alternative source of power.
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Steam energy allowed factories to move away from rivers.