A history of the steam engine!
The first attempt at a steamboat was John Fitch’s attempt in 1787, Which failed due to economic reasons. The first notable steamboat that caught the public’s eye was the CLERMONT, a steamboat designed by Robert Fulton. After that, steamboats really got on the Mississippi. This caused a lot of competing and thus races. The most famous race was the one between the NATCHEZ and the ROBERT E LEE in 1870; the ROBERT one. After that, the SS SAVANNAH was the first steam-ship to cross the Atlantic, in 1819. It stopped at England, Sweden, Russia, Norway and Denmark before heading back. When off Ireland, a lookout thought the coloms of smoke coming from the ship meant it was on fire, and sent out a rescue boat. It chased the SAVANNAH for 5 hours before it found out that it wasn’t; this became a running joke for English and Irish newspapers.
The steam locomotive is generly credited to Richard Trevithick, who made the first steam-powered one in 1808. The Steam passenger-carying plans were invented by George Stephenson in 1812 in london. The first full-sized locomotive was invented in 1829 by Horatio Allen. In 25 years after that, there were 30,626 miles o’ layed track. Pretty soon, the railroads spread to the west coast. Anoyingly, the west of America had a unique terain that presented many chalenges. The rail race was a good example of western trains. The rails ran into each other and competed, forming the transcontenal railroad.
By 1845, all mills, factories, Ironworks, mills and brewerys used the steam engine. Though this elemanited much work, it also opened up more factories, and more jobs. Thus, all sorts of pepole came to work and mainly children. Due to the inhumain and dangerous working conditions, Parlament passed the child labor law, making it so children under 12 couldn’t be employed. Another awful line of work was mines, even more inhumain and dangerous than factories. Parlament passed lots of laws about mines and set it up so Women, Girls, Boys, and young men couldn’t work in mines. Evry time anything happened, Parlament passed a bunch of laws and jailed evil mine-runners.
In conclusion, The steam engine is a powerful Double-eged sword with one edge duller than the other. The system is a relitively clean, Powerful, Reliable mechinac. The practical applacaitons are endless, though often outpowered by the more powerful, less clean deseil engines. It is mostely used for transportaiton, as all the factory-like uses are filled by electronics. The steam engine is rather outpowered, but still powerful and relitively clean. The steam prospect has been limited, but is still widely used, popular and notable.
And Now, my written blog!
I was thinking about doing game walkthroughs as a project lately, and I decided that I needed to play my games more to practice them. I heard that Japan got totally overwrecked and that it got hit by an earthquake which set off a Tsunami which set off the nuclear power plants to melt off and blow up! I bet that video games wont be coming out for one or two years, good think that I got enough good games for another 4 years or so. I hope that some force in the middle east is heavily depending on Japan, and if so, violence in the middle east will go down a bit. Today I started to clean my room. I started by pudding all my books into the bookshelf, and in under an hour, all the shelves were completely jam-packed! I then went on a walk with O'l Mom and then I cleaned more!
Next! Some images with Annotations!
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