THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

n      In Europe (esp. England)

n      In the 18th and 19th centuries

n      How did it happen and why was it a revolution

 

The Steam Engine A whole library of books on the history of the steam engine.

 

n      Hero of Alexandria: Gadgets

Atmospheric Pressure

n      Limit of a suction pump about 10 metres

n      Galileo thought due to tension

n      Torricelli reasoned that we live at bottom of ocean of air

n      The mercury barometer

n      Mercury 13 times heavier than water

n      Pascal’s experiment on Puy de Dôme mountain near Paris

 

The Savery Steam Pump

 

The Newcomen Atmospheric Engine Animated demonstration of a Newcomen engine.

 

James Watt’s Condensing Steam Engine A brief historical sketch

n      Patented 1769 – the watershed year for the Industrial Revolution

n      James Watt, 1736-1819

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