James Watt (1736-1819) is credited with the 1765 improvement of the steam engines of Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729), which dated from 1712. The efficiency of the Watt engine led to its wide industrial use after Watt partnered with Matthew Boulton in 1775.
i think it was the textile industry and the mining industry (pumping out of underground water) ADDED: The mine pumps were first, driven by a simple beam-engine invented by Newcomen; but it was dreadfully inefficient and non-rotary. Once James Watt solved the first problem, and he and others devised engines that produced rotary motion, the steam-engine could be developed into a viable prime-mover for textile-mills and many other industries.
A water-powered factory did not create pollution and could only operate near water, but a steam-powered factory did create pollution and could operate anywhere on land
Industries which use plant & animal based products as their raw materials. Food processing , vegetable oil , cotton textile , dairy products & leather industries are e.gs of Agro based industries
A primitive form of steam engine (stationary and marine) dating from Newcomen and Watt! It has been argued that walking beam is a corruption of working beam as this is how the engine works or functions. there is a diamond shaped walking beam (steel in modern (they are long obsolete) ones and one or two cylinders and pistons. Steam is admitted to the the cylinder the piston (and the beam ) tilts up gravity valves trip on the opposite cyoinder and the process repeats itself. a walking beam engine can have a flywheel as the marine types would (the ships"s paddle wheels) or it oculd be uswed to operate pumps where it would be direct action on and off. they have been auxioliary powered by other means (su8c has diesels) and sre still in use on Oil wells pumping up thick crude oil- quite a profitabole venture inthe Middle east. There is also a walking beam esapement on some timepieces that i s sometimng else and would be very difficult to describe without illustrations.
The cotton gin removes the seeds from the cotton. This is a more difficult and slower process when done by hand, without the use of a cotton gin.
Originally the word engine simply meant machine, but this usage has declined somewhat as modern usage has tended to use it only to refer to motors.Another example of that usage is in cotton gin, where gin is a shortening of engine. Thus this is actually cotton engine or cotton machine.So a catapult is referred to as a siege engine or siege machine.
It decreased the price of cotton
Originally the word engine simply meant machine, but this usage has declined somewhat as modern usage has tended to use it only to refer to motors.Another example of that usage is in cotton gin, where gin is a shortening of engine. Thus this is actually cotton engine or cotton machine.So a catapult is referred to as a siege engine or siege machine.
The cotton gin helped to clean the cotton fibers. It had comb like structures that rotated to take dirt, bugs, and othere things out of the fibers. This made it ready to be made into threa, using the spinning jenny.
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The cotton gin essentially replaced the handpicking and cleaning of cotton. Before the invention of the gin, the U.S. employed slaves to handpick cotton. Currently, only third world countries still use slaves to handpick cotton.
The cotton gin inventeed by Eli Whitney was invented to mechanize the slow and tedious process of separating the cotton seed from the actual cotton which at the time was done by hand.
It is still in use today.
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The cotton gin essentially replaced the handpicking and cleaning of cotton. Before the invention of the gin, the U.S. employed slaves to handpick cotton. Currently, only third world countries still use slaves to handpick cotton.
It is still in use today.