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    the steam engine‚ and by the concentration of industry in large establishments. The Industrial revolution took place all over america at the time especially in the south‚ but over time the Industrial revolution spread to almost everywhere in america. The spread of the Industrial revolution was caused by the invention of the steam engine invented by Thomas Savery and Edward Somerset‚ 2nd Marquess of Worcester. The Industrial revolution came to the united stare by the fact that the steam engine

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    John Smeaton. Since then‚ it has become the foundation of almost every building in the world. Another technological development in Britain during industrial revolution was the improvement of steam engine by a Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick who began to construct higher pressure non-condensing steam engines‚ exhausting against the atmosphere. On the aspects of transportation‚ British engineers had offered a better path with engineered road and railways built by John McAdam‚ Thomas Telford‚ joseph

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    The industrial revolution in Britain was a transformation that helped to make the world how we live today. Britain became a more powerful country after allowing explosions of new ideas and new technological inventions. These new technological inventions create an increasingly industrial and urbanized country. The industrial revolution has changed British society in different ways. The idea of new technology and inventions brought growth in agricultural and industrial production‚ economic products

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    to win the war.In 1800-1900stategic management was practiced in small companies after the industrial revolution.The revolution changed production systems from artisanship and oxen power to steam engine used in production and in transportation.The steam engines used boilers to produce steam that drove the engine .Today oil is used to drive the machines. The industrial revolution brought challenges to managers and there was need for proffesional manager who would plan ahead and strategise.the daily

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    and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye […]” This obviously indicates the pollution that is going on‚ hence the ill smell and the odd colours. The author uses another disturbing image to describe the pistons of the steam engines. “[…] the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down‚ like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.” This bizarre image visualises powerful machines trapped in pointless repetitive motion. This also illustrates the boring and repetitive

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    TWO words from the passage below for each blank space. Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine was one of the first devices to use the power of steam for mechanical work. It was originally used to pump water from mines. A boiler‚ encased in brick and sitting over a coal fire‚ generated steam‚ which drove the piston in the open top cylinder above the boiler. When the steam built up‚ the pressure opened a value allowing the steam to fill the cylinder and push the piston up. When the piston reached the top

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    workers were needed‚ and could leave the Industrial Townships‚ this negatively impacted the workers. However‚ Over time richer fuel contributed to industrialization by the creation of the steam engine‚ the engine was vital for the manufacturing of industrialization products. The steam engine also was noted for powering factories‚ locomotives‚ and ships. The machines were powered by various metals‚ which caused the demand for large amounts of raw materials‚ the vast majority of these materials were

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    printing machine upon which "The Times" newspaper was printed in the mid-19th century. Augustus was born in 1788 and died in 1871. Bryan Donkin was apprenticed to John Hall‚ who was an engineer who helped both design and make engines for the S.S "Batavia for the steam navigation company and in 1836 S.S."Wilberforce" built by Curling & Young at Blackwall for the Humber Union S.S.Company.Bryan Donkin played a leading role in the establishment of the world’s first food-canning factory in 1811; this

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    James Watt’s improvements to the steam engine between 1763 and 1779 led to its increased practical and commercial success. The technical innovations of the industrial revolution increased the demand for iron which led to an iron boom in Great Britain. One innovation of the industrial revolution

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    increasing. Social ability is straying from classes and what our parents occupations are. Things like the steam engine not only help the transportation but it influences the power of machines‚ ships

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