What role did machines play in the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

It provide the energy required for locomotion like the trains.

Answer 2

The steam engine was a large part of the industrial revolution. It allowed people to be able to ship goods to far away places.

ADDED: It did, but the steam-engine had become a viable prime-mover for factory machinery before it became applied to transport.

Answer 3

Either by steam engines or electric energy.

My version ( User:Sidewaysrob's)

The industrial revolution is seen as being defined by the emergence of steam power but the truth is a little more complicated.

The industrial revolution needed an industrial base for steam engines to be produced. The power sources that allowed the development of steam power were animal, wind and water power. These power sources were part of the industrial revolution.

Thanks for updating my answer. /jw70/

Complement:

Hi buddy,

Usually, I don't provide a full answers to the questions that haven't a good context. (How were machines running during industrial revolution.) Firstly, the Industrial revolution include many stages. So, that question should be formulated under a different perspective. > I'd like to know everything about industrial rev. regarding to the power supplies required to run the machines along that period. > shortening > ... Power supplies during the industrial revolution since its beginning. ...< However, it would be possibe to give a complete answer, since you had time to do it,. The problem is to know if the inquirer is really interested on that matter, and you can feel it through the way he asks the question

Answer 4

For the same reason they are useful now: they do work faster than humans can, and do work that humans cannot because we lack the strength. The main point of the industrial revolution was that we had finally developed sufficient metallurgical skills to make steam engines, which were capable of producing enormous amounts of power day and night without tiring.

Machines could make screws and other metal parts vastly quicker than people could, which made manufactured goods cheaper and also provided work for tens of thousands of people assembling the manufactured goods.

Machine woven fabrics were a fraction of the price of hand woven, because cloth could be woven faster and wider than ever before - and more consistently.

And steam powered boats and locomotives allowed the goods to be moved around the world much faster, without worrying about the vagaries of wind and weather.

Answer 5

it allowed the British to build new factories far from rivers or forests.

Answer 6

Machines like the steam-engine and powered textile-machinery were first invented in the Industrial Revolution. This means that machines were very important

Answer 7

Because more people wanted to use things and produce things quicker