Movers and Shakers: Water, Steam and the Internal Combustion Engine

Machines to move things and people

The Industrial Revolution was made possible by machines that multiplied the force of human strength. First water power, then steam, made possible the factories that transformed life in Britain at the end of the 18th century. 

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