The Modern World From Charlemagne to the Present Time With a Preliminary Surve
The Modern World From Charlemagne to the Present Time With a Preliminary Surve
Willis M Willis Mason West
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In 1785 steam was first used to drive spinning machinery. Fifteen years later, there were more steam engines in England than ivater wheels, and four had found their way to America. 665. One more series of inventions completed the wonderful circle of the eighteenth century, where one discovery had so led on to another. Engines and power machines could be built in a satisfactory manner only from iron ; but in 1790 the manu- facture of iron was still slow and costly, and the product was poor stuff.... In that year, however, steam began to be used to furnish a new blowing apparatus which gave a steady blast of air, in place of the old bellows and like arrangements. This made possible more rapid and more perfect work in iron. 1 George McDonald's St. George and St. Michael tells the story. 667] THE STEAMBOAT 531 Soon, too, new and better ways were found to change the brittle " castings " into malleable " wrought " iron. 666. Thus, by 1800, the "age of steam and iron'' had begun in England, and to some degree in America.
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