To: Valin
1736 James Watt Scotland, inventor (steam engine) I tell ya', this whole Industrial Revolution thing just might lead somewhere.
66 posted on
01/19/2005 11:03:33 AM PST by
Professional Engineer
(I don't a microchip jockey 'droid. I need a 'droid who understands the language of 3 phase power.)
To: Professional Engineer
The "Industrial Revolution" so far has been figuring out how to use fossil fuels. Ran out of wood to make charcoal to make steel, steel needed for weapons, substituted coal, which was on the surface in Britain in those days. Coal substituted for wood as a fuel for general use, space heating, etc., mines got deep, had to be dewatered, Newcomen, then Bolten-Watt, and shift to steam for spinning and weaving from water power, cheaper cast iron and steel because of cheaper fuel replaced wood and hand wrought iron in machine (weapon) making, and so big fabric plants could be built, etc.
72 posted on
01/19/2005 11:24:37 AM PST by
Iris7
(.....to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Same bunch, anyway.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson