The Industrial Revolution ... of this was – the engine. Steam engines burned up the buried energy of millennia captured in coal and used it to create immediate power. What a moment!

Yet America's romance with steam did not die easily. Steam had powered the Industrial Revolution, after all, and the whistle of steam engines had fired many a young man's imagination. Quite a few ...

The First Industrial Revolution of the late 18th century introduced mechanization through water and steam power. This was followed by the Second Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century ...

Rivers have been more intensively used for power in the Don catchment than almost anywhere else in the country, particularly during the peak of the Industrial Revolution ... economy demanded ever more ...