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Invention of Steamboat
The American inventor Robert Fulton and Introduction of steam powered boats in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The steam-powered boats could travel at the astonishing speed of up to five miles per hour. They soon revolutionized river travel and trade, and dominated the waterways. -
Advantages of Steamboat
Until the Steamboat, the people had no other transportation besides animals. Prior to the steamboat, long-distance travel up stream were useful. -
Disadvantages of Steamboat
Steamboats were often useful but, they were not regulated and killed a lot of people due to boiler explosions from unsafe designs. Steamboats also cost alot of money to maintain -
Steam Engine
In 1814 George Stephenson, inspired by the early locomotives of Trevithick, Murray and Hedley, persuaded the manager of the Killingworth colliery where he worked to allow him to build a steam-powered machine. He built the Blücher, one of the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotives. -
Advantages of Steam Engines
As time went along the technology also increases to big and better things. The steam engine was the most important invention in the whole of the Industrial Revolution. It meant that factories did not have to be built beside waterways for waterwheels to provide the power. It meant that you didn't have to rely on the weather for windmills to be effective and you need not go to the expense of keeping horses to power the gins. -
Disadvantages of steam engines
A steam engine is huge and heavy. Due to its big boiler and furnace a steam engine is huge, "heavy and clumsy." Since the boiler of a steam engine is very heavy, therefore, a steam engine cannot be used for running small vehicles like cars and buses.
