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During the 1700s and 1800s, the industrial revolution changed practically everything about the world of work. Many of the changes where were technolocal advances. As the rate of advance increased, many other aspects of daily life besides work were also transformed.
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The first commercially successful steam engine was built in England in 1712, but it was very slow. Then an inventor named James Watt came up wiht crucial innovations. His engine was faster and more efficient at driving machinery. By 1800 about 500 of Watt's steam engines were chugging and hissing in mines and factories throughout Britain.
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