The invention of the steam engine was one of the biggest impacts on American economies. The invention of the steam engine changed our expectations on how long it would take to make items and how long it would take for the item to get to you (Blumberg 32). Without the invention of the steam engine the transcontinental railroad would have never happened. Also, the car might not have ever been without the invention of the steam engine, cars would still be moved with a horse or other animal (Blumberg 1). The invention of the steam engine is greatly forgotten about and nobody really appreciates the fact that it started a whole revolution (Coolier 9). The steam engine has proven it is one of the most impactful inventions of America.
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There were new tools and more inventions that came out that had the steam engine at its core(Mattern 7,8). Changed people's mind on time for taking weeks to travel somewhere it would only take a few hours(Mattern 12).
The industrial revolution was one of the biggest impacts of the invention of the steam engine(Mattern 15). It lead to people building buildings everywhere, made a better economy and environment. It made in engineers come up with new ways. 1790 was when the modern steam engine was invented how every nobody really knows when the first steam engine was made(Mattern 14). The invention of the steam engine also lead to a lot of injures because of the high pressure things were breaking (Mattern 17).
The first steam engine train was called the puffin devil and was a really inefficient engine(Mattern 19). It took tons of coal just to go a few feet.the steam engine started as just a little model(Mattern 20). The first trains did not run on rails. The rails were added and ended up making the train more efficient(Mattern 22). The steam engine was cheaper that horses were more expensive than the engine which made them a thing of the past. People had even started to make there own amusment parks by 1808 using the steam engine(Mattern