It wasn’t the invention of the steam engine alone that propelled the industrial revolution. It was the invention of the steam engine coinciding with the discovery and exploitation of close-surface coal seams, and propelled by the cheap labor provided by enclosure of the commons.
It wasn’t the invention of the steam engine alone that propelled the industrial revolution. It was the invention of the steam engine coinciding with the discovery and exploitation of close-surface coal seams, and propelled by the cheap labor provided by enclosure of the commons.