Steam energy allowed factories to move away from rivers.
Once factories were dependent on steam power instead of water power they could be built away from rivers. However, coal is heavy and expensive to transport; and so it still made sense for factories to be built on or close to waterways and not too far from coalfields. Later, with the arrival of generated electricity, it became possible, for the first time, for factories to built in all sorts of places, as the generation of power no longer had to take place on site.
The invention of the steam engine and electricity allowed factories to be built away from rivers.
An alternate power source (other than the river) such as electricity.
Railroads replaced rivers as the primary means for transporting goods, and the steam engine replaced rivers as a source of power to drive the factories.
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Since they are both rivers they allowed boats to carry goods.
Factories need transportation to bring in supplies needed inside the factory and to ship what is produced in the factory out to stores, the public, etc. Early factories didn't have the use of railroad and trucking transportation, so the quickest way for these early factories to bring things to the factory and ship goods out of the factory was by water. Therefore, they were built along waterways like rivers.
over 1,000 rivers
There are at least 4 majors rivers in South Carolina including the Edisto River. Other rivers include the Great Pee Dee River and the Santee River.
The Allegheny and Monogahela rivers joinb at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River.
Electricity
Invention of the steam engine allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers.
The invention of steam engines to drive factory machinery allowed manufacturers to build factories away from running water.
Electricity
Coal, to make steam.
The development of steam engines was the biggest change. It provided power where ever there was something to burn. The factories could be located closer to the raw materials.Electricity allowed manufacturers to locate their plants wherever they wanted, not just near sources of power, such as rivers. Steamelectricity
invention of the steam engine allowed factories to end their dependence on the waterwheel and thus, ended the need to be located next to streams or rivers.
Rivers
we are damaging the river because of factories and water pollution.
Most factories in the 1800s were located in developed areas where there was a reliable source of fuel. They were often near sources of coal or on rivers to use the flowing water.
Rivers
Rivers are a source of water and transportation.