what were the technical innovations that gave Britain her industrial lead?

Question

can you not put steam engine or if you do explain it in major detail.

Answer 1

The smelting of iron using coke by Abraham Derby in Ironbridge, Staffs.
(Previously, charcoal was used.)

The first successful steam railway locomotives.
(Invented by Trevithick but improved by Hackworth and Stephenson).

Answer 2

It is impossible to nominate just one, many of the innovations within the textile industry were initially 'tweaks' on original ideas that eventually evolved into machines such as the spinning Jenny and the water frame. If you were to look at the hand loom the basic process virtually remained the same, with the exception of a few minor modifications.
The same can be said regarding many other processes, in agriculture as wheel as in textiles, water and wind power had always been utilised in one way or another. If you were to look at the fulling stocks at Helmshore in Lancashire, that process had remained the same since the 12th century and was still in use in the early 20th century.
Therefore I think the innovation wasn't technical at all, it was the centralisation of industry. Yes the textile industry wouldn't have been such a success without the steam engine, but its centralisation helped to promote new ideas and innovations, and this was helped by the laissez-faire attitude of central government, which gave the industrialist to virtually do what they wanted.

Answer 3

Sorry but Thomas Watt did not invent the steam engine he only improved on previous ideas.

Thomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine. A full 38 years before Watt was born. This was followed by Thomas Newcomen from Dartmouth in Devon. Thomas Watt then improved Newcomen's engines as they were inefficient but none the less successful.

Answer 4

The greatest technical discovery in Britain was steam power by James Watt (Scotland) and the development of railways. George Stephenson a colliery engineman developed the crude engines of Timothy Hackworth and others to pull coal waggons on previously horse drawn waggonays from the coal mines of Northumberland to the river Tyne. The rest as they say is history.

Answer 5

The invention of the steam engine. Not only for the railway, but it revolutionised the factories and put Britain at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 6

Steam powered engines made it possible to use machinery instead of human power. That led to railways and the mechanisation of industry. Also inventions like the Spinning Jenny replaced old-fashioned ways of making textiles. The cotton industry really took in the north and became one of our biggest exports.

Answer 7

Like many things it was a convergance of a number of developments/techniques that resulted in a sea change for the UK.
Pricipally:-

Steam allowed coal mines to mine at greater depth. This resulted in the mining of higher grade coal/anthracite. This burned at higher temprature , which resulted in higher grade steels which produced finer quality rifles / weapons which were more accurate/ faster rates of fire/greater range. Which assisted in the growth and Maintenance of the British Empire - this resulted in the growth of the Middle Classes and affluence - which feed greater Industrial growth etc etc.........

n so it goes on.............

Answer 8

the ability to make iron.