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Korea Iron & Steel Association Chapter 2●Take One: What is the origin of iron?
That was the Industrial
Revolution!
With increased production Similarly, new inventions The Industrial
of steel, Britain became a were made Revolution
leading industrial power. one after another, and also started from
Previously, machines relevant industries flourished.
were moved by the power As a result, a ‘revolution’ steel!
of wind or water, using Industrial across industries began.
windmills and waterwheels. Revolution?

You’re right! As the age of railroads began,
goods produced in Great Britain were sold
all over the world, and new machines Whoever controls steel
James Watt
James Watt
and technologies began to spread to other
1736~1819 rules the world!
countries.
Mass production did not go into En gla n d Bela r us
England
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Steam engine
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Englishman, used the power of the Germany y P Poland d Ukr a in e
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Ukraine
steam to build the ‘steam engine.’
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When the volume of coal and iron F France
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ore grew, so did ‘steel,’ which began Ita lia R Romania
Italia
Ahem!
to be mass produced to build Ahem!
machines.
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When steelmaking technology was That’s correct! Britain soon grew the size of
developed, people stopped relying on its navy and invented metal ships powered by
water and animal power. Instead, engines steam. As a result, Britain was able to rule over
were developed with wheels to adjust a quarter of the world, earning the nickname
speed. Even trains were invented to the ‘Empire on which the sun never sets.’
transport large volumes of goods quickly
over great distances.
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In 1885, it was Germany’s Karl Benz, the inventor of the first automobile, who built the first three-wheeled
Tidbit The British Association for the Advancement of Science adopted the ‘watt’ as a unit of power in 1889 in Tidbit gasoline vehicle, the Patent-Motorwagen. Then, Henry Ford was the first to successfully mass produce
honor of James Watt, who invented the steam engine.
the world's first internal combustion engine in the U.S. in 1903.
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