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For thousands of years, humans had relied on animal and people power to move heavy loads and drive machinery. This all changed in the late 18th century with the arrival of a bold new invention: the steam engine.
Steam engines operate by burning fuel to heat water until it boils. hot steam from the boiling water is trapped to create pressure, which is used to drive. machinery.
steam engines were more flexible than windmills or waterwheels, which has to be built in specific places, and more powerful than humans or animals. they could drive Factory and farm acquipment, and pull ploughs across field or trains along tracks. larger models pumped vast amount of water to drain mines and Supply canal systems, and hauled blocks of stone and ore from quarries and mines. they were the driving force behind many of the innovation of the Industrial Revolution.
Stephenson's Rocket.....
The first steam locomotives were unreliable and very heavy. in 1829, a competition was held to design an engine to run on the newly built Liverpool to Manchester railway. The winner was the rocket, built by Robert Stephenson and his father, George.
Inside the engine....
Early Steam engine used a single large cylinder to power all the wheels at once. The rocket had two angled cylinders, each connected directly to a single wheel with a control rod. This and other innovations, such as the blast pipe and a boiler with multiple tubes for hot air, made the Rocket faster and more efficient than any Steam engine built before.
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