The Industrial Revolution made way for an era where the speed of inventions was 2% faster than the invention speed of the past. About every 2 years the speed of inventions increases 2% because we make inventions and then with those inventions we make more inventions and so on. I know this sounds crazy, but I don’t think that it will ever end, I mean why would it slow down or stop?
The Romans were the best bridge builders of their time. They had a lot of slaves and used them to make arch bridges. People that didn’t have so many slaves couldn’t easily or cheaply make arch bridges. So other peoples made different bridges and some made suspension bridges. Suspension bridges are cheap to make and can hold things that are much heavier than it.
Before the Industrial Revolution pipes used for sewage were made out of elm wood. Elm wood when kept wet deteriorated at a slow enough rate it could be used as a pipe easily. Before the fire hydrant if there was a fire people had to dig down to the pipes and cut a hole in the wood wait for the hole to fill up with water then use buckets to quench the fire and do all that while the fire is burning.
Watt improved the Newcomen steam engine but he still used low pressure steam and this meant it was bulky and not mobile. Another man who had grown up near a mine wanted to attach an engine to the heavy carts used for moving stone but it required a high pressure steam engine so he made one. It was called the puffin devil and the first train engine ever.
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