Why? Because to take advantage of electricity, factory owners had to think in a very different way. They could, of course, use an electric motor in the same way as they used steam engines.

Initially, steam also was used to power oil rigs for servicing and ... but completely built at the Clarksburg factory. At the ...

One of the most important inventions was the steam engine. It provided power for transportation and powered most of the machines in the new factories. Most factories used coal to power their new ...

Conditions in factories and coal mines ... for all of this was – the engine. Steam engines burned up the buried energy of millennia captured in coal and used it to create immediate power.