How were tasks performed in the past before they've developed Steam Engine?
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Animal power and stReam (hydro) power also wind power.
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Most notable was Watt's 1769 patent for a separate condenser connected to a cylinder by a valve. Unlike Newcomen's engine, Watt's design had a condenser that could be cool while the cylinder was hot.\nFor a complete history of the steam engine see link below
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I could say Mr. John Shovel in 1888 but that would be silly.  It was without doubt found that the common 'spade' did not hold enough coal to charge the boilers firstly on trains and later on steam ships.  Something larger was required.  Later, the shovel was obviously found to be ideal for moving large quantities of snow.  The removal of snow from in front of homes goes back to the early 1800's when it was a criminal offence in London for shopkeepers not to remove snow from the pavement outside their shops.
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The first hand-powered cleaner using vacuum principles may have been the "Whirlwind", invented in Chicago in 1865.\n\nThe first powered cleaner employing a vacuum was patented by H. Cecil Booth, a British engineer, in 1901. He noticed a device used in trains that blew dust off the chairs, and thought it would be much more useful to have one that sucked dust. He tested the idea by laying a handkerchief on the seat of a dinner chair, putting his mouth to it and sucking hard. He nearly choked, but upon seeing the dust and dirt collected on the underside of the handkerchief he realised the idea could work. Booth worked to create a device operating on such principles, and patented such a machine in Britain: the large device, known as the Puffing Billy, was drawn by horses and parked outside the building to be cleaned; suction was then provided by an internal-combustion engine burning petrol (gasoline). However, Booth never achieved great success with his invention.
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Steam (otherwise known as water in the gas phase) is produced when water boils.\nBut you already knew this.\n\nAll you need to do is boil some water.\nSet a pot on the stove, fill with water, turn on the heat, wait, and there is your "Steam Machine".
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The burning of the fuel (chemical) caused the water to turn to steam (heat) which causes the piston to move the rod (mechanical) which moves the engine,\n\nIf you are looking for more in-depth,
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Ford was the first company to use an assembly line.\n\nA Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emporer Chien Lung in about 1678.
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Benefits:\nThe invention of the steam engine was one of the most important innovations of the industrial revolution. This was made possible by earlier improvements in iron smelting and metal working based on the use of coke rather than charcoal. Earlier in the 18th century the textile industry had harnessed water power to drive improved spinning machines (see spinning jenny) and looms (see flying shuttle). These textile mills became the model for the organisation of human labour in factories\n\nIndustrialisation also led to the creation of the factory. \n\nThe Industrial Revolution could not have developed without machine tools, for they enabled manufacturing machines to be made. \n\ntextile Manufacturing\n\nMining Industry and Metallurgy Industry\n________________________________________________\n\nHarmful Effects:\n1. Child Labor\nChild labour existed before the Industrial Revolution, and in fact dates back to prehistoric times, but during the Industrial Revolution it grew far more abusive than ever before.[1] Politicians tried to limit child labour by law. Factory owners resisted -- they felt that they were aiding the poor by giving their children work from the age of five years onward. In 1833 the first law against child labour, the Factory Act of 1833, was passed in England: Children younger than nine were not allowed to work, children were not permitted to work at night and the work day of youth under the age of 18 was limited to twelve hours. Factory inspectors supervised the execution of this law. About ten years later, the employment of children and women in mining was forbidden. These laws improved the situation; however child labour remained a problem in Europe up to the 20th century.\n\n2 Housing Situation\n\n3 Luddities\nThe rapid industrialization of the English economy cost many craft workers their jobs. The textile industry in particular industrialized early, and many weavers found themselves suddenly unemployed since they could no longer compete with machines which only required relatively limited (and unskilled) labour to produce more cloth than a single weaver. Many such unemployed workers, weavers and others, turned their animousity towards the machines that had taken their jobs and began destroying factories and machinery. These attackers became known as Luddites, supposedly followers of Ned Ludd, a folklore figure. The first attacks of the Luddite movement began in 1811. The Luddites rapidly gained popularity, and the British government had to take drastic measures to protect industry.
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Almost all power plants use some heat source (coal, natural gas, nuclear pile, geothermal heat, concentrated sun rays) to generate steam. The steam turns turbines. The turbines turn generators.\nGenerators generate electricity which is where electromagnetism comes in. A simple model is this: when you move a magnet around a wire you see a current induced in the wire. Now a generator moves a whole bunch of coils of wire around magnets (or moves magnets inside lots of coils of wire) and thus uses electromagnetism to generate electricity.
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It didn't quite happen that way.\n\nPeople used the sun and sun dials for a long time before our current system of time. Then they started tracking night-time times with water-clocks and similar things.\n\nBut there weren't universally recognized time systems, or such things as our current standard hours and minutes.\n\nWhen clocks (as we know them) began to be made, there wasn't a universal, world-wide time setting.\n\nMonks created the first machines to measure time, to "sound" the time for their religious rituals. (They didn't have universal standards, but varied by place and religious order.)\n\nAround 1330 he got our standard hour.\n\nTowns started building clock towers to sound time for the town (people didn't have their own clocks yet), measuring time from noon to noon or maybe sunset to sunset (or maybe it varied) in 24 1-hour increments.\n\nMinutes came much later.\n\nI don't know when we started world-wide synchronization.
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Steam generators produce steam not condensation.  A steam generator (e.g., in a nuclear plant) generates steam that can be used to drive a steam turbine to generate mechanical or electric power.  The oldest systems (non-nuclear) discharged the steam wastefully to atmosphere.  In modern plants, exhaust steam from a steam turbine is directed to a steam condenser (where cooling water is used to condense the steam).  This allows the condensed water that must be highly pure and chemically treated to be reused by pumping it back to the steam generator.  More importantly, because the steam condenser reduces the turbine exhaust pressure well below atmospheric pressure, the steam is permitted to expand even more through the turbine blades extracting more power from the steam.  This greatly improves overall system efficiency by providing far more power from the energy expended to produce the steam.
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Thomas Savery\nThomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine.\n\nfor more info \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine
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CENTURIES OF PROGRAMMING
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I think you are talking about the Industrial Revolution.\n\nTo find out more, you can just check out the website below!\n\nHope I've been of some help!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution
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Solar power has existed as long as humans have existed. It was used well ionto pre-history. The first use of solar power was probably in drying clothes or food. \n\nSome of the very earliest written documents record the existence of dried dates and dried fish, which were of course sun dried. \n\nThe idea that it was first used in 5000BC is completely erroneous. Solar power is a prehistroic energy source and has been used in some form by every human society that has ever existed.
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See at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_steam_engine
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An early pressure cooker, called a steam digester, was invented by Denis Papin, a French physicist, in 1679.\n\nWile E. Coyote cartoons had pressure cookers.