But when the tweakers took over the efficiency of the steam engine swiftly quadrupled.
Mechanisation, from the steam engine onwards, lightened the load of manual labour, creating jobs and wealth.
They travelled in coaches pulled by an 1898-built steam engine, known as Met Locomotive No 1.
James Watt invented the modern steam engine, doubling the efficiency of the engines that had come before.
The steam engine, the first to be officially recorded at 100mph, was bought for the nation in 2004.
The locomotive is being refitted with vacuum brakes to enable it to tow the steam engine and carriages.
This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.
Similarly slim as against chunky figurines, building a pet grooming shop as opposed to a steam engine and so on.
Transformative inventions--the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, automobile, airplane, radio and television, computer and Internet and so on--require constant investment.
For example, almost a hundred years separated the steam engine innovation and its peak technology deployment in the British economy.
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Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.
Singer believes that the drones will be as transformative as the advent of gunpowder, the steam engine, the automobile, or the computer.
Indeed, China had built a form of steam engine before James Watt.
The restored steam engine travelled from its sheds near Earl's Court, west London, to start a journey from Kensington Olympia to Moorgate.
The innovation and wealth graph tilts up a bit during the Renaissance and again after the steam engine launched the first Industrial Revolution.
In fact, the day trip can feel like stepping back in time as the steam engine shuttles passengers in coaches dating from 1922.
The memorial at the Alrewas site is of a Class 8F steam engine and measures about 2.7m (9ft) wide by 2.3m (7.5ft) high.
Not the interior secretary under Reagan, but the 18th-century Scot who got the idea for the first steam engine from his auntie's teakettle.
Such technological disruptions from the steam engine and electricity to the internal combustion engine and the transistor used to come once a generation or so.
These were followed, more recently, by technologies of prosperity like the steam engine, the assembly line, and complex systems of communication, power and finance.
They were joined on occasions by James Watt, the engineer who fine-tuned the steam engine, and Joseph Priestley, a burning radical who discovered oxygen.
The carving of a steam engine in black granite rests on top of a plinth, which includes a montage of images representing the railway industry.
For example, railways came into existence because of the invention of the steam engine and automobiles were created because of technology breakthroughs in automobile engines.
Ford's first attempt at a genuine four-wheel vehicle, which he called the Quadricycle, used valves adapted from a steam engine and didn't have a reverse gear.
Since Game 3 they have regressed into their worrisome old selves, not the steam engine that wound down the regular season with a 13-game winning streak.
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The innovation and wealth graph tilts up ever so slightly during the Renaissance and then tilts again after the steam engine launched the first Industrial Revolution.
The Tornado was the first steam engine built to run on the UK mainline for almost 50 years and was assembled by steam enthusiasts in Darlington.
Steps from the hotel's entrance is a petite train station from which chugs a steam engine taking you to nearby sleepy towns, one with a 14th-century abbey.
It begins with an evocative description of George Stephenson's Rocket, a famous early steam engine, and traces the developments needed to make each of its individual components possible.
In London, the world's first narrow gauge steam engine, Princess, was unveiled after being restored by craftsmen on the Ffestiniog Railway, where she was used 150 years ago.
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