Transportation

   On Sea

The invention of steam powered engins improved shipping. Robert Fulton, used Watt's steam engine to power the Clermont. This steamboat traveled a speed of 5 miles per hour. Steamboat became common on British rivers. By the mid 1800's, steam-powered ships were beginning to carry raw materials and finished products across the Atlantic Ocean.  

British engineers widened and deepend many streams to make them navigable. They also built canals to link cities and to connect coal fields with rivers. British engineers also built many bridges and lighthouses and deepend harbors. 

- Ellis, Elisabeth G., and Anothony Esler. World History: Connections to today the modern era. Upper saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005

- 1 Nov. 2007 <http://www.puhsd.k12.ca.us/chana/staffpages/eichman/Adult-School/us/fall/industrialization..>.

  On Land

     This is a picture of a steam engine during the golden age                   

The rails on which the trains travled on made it easier for the

 horses to pull more wait than it would on the road.  The horses

coule pull 4,500 pounds of coal, while on the regular road they

could only pull 1,600 pounds.    

     Transportation was critical during the industrial Revolution. 

The people needed raw materials  in the diffrent states, but had

no way to transport them.  This is the reason for the invention of

the steam engine.  The steam engine made it easier for coal

miners to mine the coal.  There is no way that we could have

improved our way of life with out the steam engine