Steam+Engine+Transportation


 * 1) My topic is transportation with steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
 * 2) **What I already know:**
 * Who?** James Watt
 * What?** Invented the first high pressure steam engine
 * Where?**
 * When?** 1776
 * Why?** To produce a power source that could be used to fuel machienery
 * How?**

The steam engine influenced the Industrial Revolution by providing a power source for the various machines of the time. The steam engine was used to operate machinery in factories, rotate the weels on trains, spin the paddles on steamboats, and many more things. Steam power was very useful and helped with industry and trade during the Industrial Revolution.

Improvements to the steam engine pre-Industrial Revolution are what made it such a useful power source for the machinerey of the time. One of the major contributors to the steam engine was James Watt. He made the steam engine more reliable and more powerful. The improved engine was used for almost anything that required a source of power. Other improvements also helped, the invention of the high-pressure steam engine was very useful and productive.

The steam engine was first built in America by engineer Oliver Evans. Bringing the high-pressure engine to America would play an important role in the Industrial Revolution. The engine could be used in factories to produce goods at a much faster rate than ever before. It could also be used to power carrier locomotives that would transport goods along the system of rail lines that streached across the United States.

The steam engine was a useful device during the Industrial Revolution. It was a very useful source of power for the various machines used to benefit the Industrial Revolution. Without steam power the Industrial Revolution could have never even happened.