Mankind’s interrelation with manufacturing systems has a long history. Nowadays we see manufacturing systems and their applications as systems in which goods are produced and delivered to the suitable places where we can obtain them. We are conscious of the fact that everything we consume or obtain is produced at some facilities. We are also aware of the fact that many components involve at these processes such as laborers, capital, and machines. Nevertheless, majority of people might not realize how these processes have developed all along this time and changed our daily lives surprisingly. Manufacturing, as a crucial part of the industry, has always had overwhelming impacts on our life habits, societal structures and also started new eras. This is why we need to gain more knowledge about the dynamics beneath all that system. Political, scientific, economic or social steps that are taken by civilizations have an impact on how we produce goods and on how we live our very daily lives. Because this is the real evolution of man and we still are a part of it.
Having commented on how we are so much interlaced with the true nature of manufacturing, our intention should be focusing on the turning points in the history of invention of the steam engine and we shall understand the evolution in the industry and particularly discover the invention of the advanced steam engine developed by James Watt in eighteenth century and its effect on even today’s manufacturing practices and societal structures.
Development of the steam engine can be separated into three fundamental milestones, namely the steam engine was developed over a period of about a hundred years by three British inventors. “The first crude steam powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in 1698. Savery built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines. This machine was so simple that it had no moving parts. It also used up lots and lots of coal just to pump