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To: bobjam

You forgot the steam engine that brought the Industrial Revolution


28 posted on 02/01/2008 5:50:39 AM PST by balls
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To: balls

“You forgot the steam engine that brought the Industrial Revolution”

That certainly should be included in the list since we are discussing Great Britain rather than just England. The steam engine led to the “horseless carriage”, which became the automobile. The horse was abandoned and Western city streets almost immediately ceased being filthy strips of mud, standing water and horse manure. Outbreaks of cholera and other water and insect bourne pestilences came to halt as a result.

Of course the socialist libs would view the steam engine as a great evil because it led to industrialization and technological advances. Somehow boulevards not filled with manure was a societal setback to them.


36 posted on 02/01/2008 7:49:51 AM PST by bobjam
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