drawers for candles cook supper on a camp stove in the backyard when you can't rely on the kind of energy you're used to using you need creative thinking to get thing s done. about 2,600 year rich people in ancient Greece run short of slaves to water all the crops so they began building waterwheels next to rivers. The flow of the rivers turned the wheel which pumped technology for thousands of year. And then a few hundred years ago someone figured out how to use waterwheels to make fabric. for as long as anyone could remember people had make fabric at home by spinning materials like sheep's wool or cotton into thread and weaving that thread into cloth. But at the end of eighteenths century businessmen in England realized that they could build factories next to rives the rives could turn waterwheels and waterwheels could turn gears and pulleys in the mill that make the spinning and weaving machines run. people mostly women and children stood by to make sure the machines were running smoothly but the main muscle power come from the river. Cotton mills spun more cotton than ever before faster than ever before and the wold never be the same again. This was beginning of the Industrial Revolution As businessman built new factories people moved to cities to work in the factories where they cloud earn steady wage. Factory made cloth sold well because it was cheaper then handmade cloth factory owner made plenty of money and they built more factories. all of those factories were hungry for energy and inventors were happy to come up with new energy sources. from called book BrilIiant
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