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Who improved the steam engine and used the improved engine to drive textile machinery?
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What best describes James Watts' contribution to the Industrial Revolution?
Answer this question… He adapted the steam engine for use many different industrial uses.
Who were the first pioneers of the industrial revolution?
Inventors developing the textile industry, such as John Kay and Richard Arkwright. Looms and other machinery then were water-powered. The great canal-builders of the late 18C - vastly improving commercial transport. Engineers who realised the possibility of steam power, initially only to pump water from metalliferous mines: Newcomen. Then James Watt, who realised the principles by which the first crude machines could be made much more efficient, and as Matthew Boulton's business partner, developed the steam engine into commercially-viable prime movers for factory machinery generally. The SI unit of power (1 Joule/second) is the Watt, after him. Cugnot, in Paris, built the first engine-drive (steam) road vehicle, based on a gun-carriage, but his quest ended in a crash that wrecked both carriage and career. Trevithick invented the steam railway locomotive, later developed by the Stephensons, mainly on the railways which at the time were horse-drawn mineral tramways serving mines and collieries.
What are benefits of constructing canals?
In the UK, coal mine owners built canals to take the coal to the factories springing up due to the Industrial Revolution. The arrival of the steam engine to drive the machinery (cotton spinning and cloth weaving) meant that factories no longer had to be built near running water to drive a water wheel. The canals also carried finished goods from the mills to the markets, or seaports for shipping abroad, all on barges, as the roads were very bad.
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What year was James Watt's steam engine invented?
Steam engine was invented by Newcomen in early 1750. A Steam engine was built by James Watt in 1774. James Watt realised why existing engines to the Newcomen design were so desperately inefficient, and developed an important modification that greatly improved them. He and others also developed what hitherto had been a rather crude, purely reciprocating engine that could drive the mine-drainage pumps of the time but little else, into a reliable prime-mover whose rotary output could drive many other types of machine via pulleys and belts. ' Watt also invented the Horsepower to measure engines' abilities, using equine power as a comparison of the day, and the modern SI unit of power (rate of energy conversion, where 1W = 1 Joule / second) is the Watt, named in his honour. 1hp = 33000 ft/lbs/min = 746W. For many practical conversions, e.g. comparing car specifications, taking 1HP = 750W is near enough.
Who developed a stem engine that could drive machinery?
Tom Thumb
What best describes James Watts' contribution to the Industrial Revolution?
Answer this question… He adapted the steam engine for use many different industrial uses.
What is the purpose of windmills?
Either to pump water or drive machinery.
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Where is the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection in Madison Wisconsin located?
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