Energy Change In The 19th Century

The speed and nature of energy innovations in the following centuries led to dramatic transformations in human life and economy as well as major environmental impacts. In the 19th century, a number of agrarian economies dependent on wood and animal power became industrial economies driven by coal and the steam engine (O’Connor, 2012). Many economies underwent another transformation relying on a variety of fuels in internal combustion engines and electricity generators. As the demand for energy services has changed, so have the fuels and conversion technologies employed to meet those demands. As populations have risen and economic activity has expanded, energy consumption has increased, primarily through the use of fossil fuels (O’Connor, 2012).

This first energy transition took placed during the late 18th century until the 1920s when coal based steam power formed well over two thirds of the global energy system. The second energy transition is described by the process of the earlier dominating Coal based steam technology group by electricity and petroleum based technologies. Still some two billion lack access to modern energy services provided by electric appliances and end‐use devices, as documented in the Global Energy Assessment (Grubler,

With the energy revolution led to the industrial revolution with innovation of various energy’s such as steam engine, transportation and communication, weaving machines and use of electricity. Before human being have just relied on muscular power of man and animals but later started using of wood, coal and fossil fuels since during that time human being were not that much exposed to the environment and done researched on energy. Thus it is clear that access to affordable energy is essential to human activities and economic