Transportation

During the Industrial Revolution there were many changes. For example there the is Steam Engine, and Railroads

The steam engine

" It provided a landmark in the industrial development of Europe." The first steam engine was made by Thomas Newcomen in 1705.  George Stephenson developed steam engine to pull carriages along railroads. Steam engines improved transportation all around the world. "In 1807, Robert Fulton, used  James Watt's steam engine to power the Clermont up the Hudson River in New York."

The Railroads

Railroads improved transportation all around the world. "George Stephenson was invited by the Stockton and Darlington Railway to build the railroad between these towns."(Ogburn, Charlton) Stockton and Darlington was the first public railroad to carry people around the world. The tracks of the railroad could go places where rivers could not go, so it allowed factory owners and merchants to ship goods over land. The important railroad from Liverpool to Manchester opened in England in the year 1830. The earliest railroad was by wragons, that were linked coal mines to nearby rivers. These railroads were made out of wooden plates, but in the year 1760 they put iron plates to replace the wooden plates. Iron railroads were developed for the canals to be hauled to nearby water transports.

Work Cited

1. Ogburn,Charlton(1977).Railroads The Great American Adventure.The National Geographic Society

2.  Rempel, Prof.Gerhard. The Industrial Revolution,<http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/industrial-revolution/index.html> Western New England College.