Oops. You have described Newcomen's atmospheric Engine, not Watt's development of it. Watt introduced steam power above the piston head, as well as a separate chamber, different from the piston chamber, to increase efficiency by not cooling the piston chamber for every piston stroke. Furthermore, the conversations to this point seem to have missed the point - there was no single cause to the British Industrial Revolution; there were many contributing factors which, peaking over a similar period, eventually produced what we call the Industrial Revolution. For example: the medieval adoption of the mold-board plough which put the 'arable' into the heavy soils of western Europe; the agricultural revolution which improved farming techniques, producing more food more efficiently but reducing the need for agricultural workers, who were thus thrown off the land landing in the squalid cities desperate for any kind of work; Abraham Derby's development of coke from coal, producing a better grade of iron; the development of the triangle trade route between England, Nigeria, Cuba, the cotton plantations of the southern USA [cheap iron goods were traded for Nigerian slaves "niggers," males were sold to the sugar plantations in Cuba, females to the cotton plantations - and the ships took home cotton and capital - both of which were used to establish the cotton factories in England.] The cotton factories used the unemployed former peasants, selling cotton to the world - and mainly to India, thus transferring wealth from India to England [which is why Ghandi promoted weaving his own cotton in order to get this industry back.] So the development of the British Raj was also important to the British industrial revolution. The Bessemer Process enabled manufacturing large quantities of steel, thus enabling the construction of high pressure steam engines, resulting in workable moving steam engines running on the now available steel rails - the locomotive. The notion that a small clique of fecund middle class provided the workers for the industrial revolution is amusing, as is the idea that education proliferated with this group. Statistics indicate to the contrary; life span and education were both stunted when comparing urban parishes to rural, parishes during the early industrial revolution. In fact, the industrial wealthy lived shorter lives than the rural agricultural workers at this time. Space is too short to discuss the economic and educational consequences of religious Dissenters in this scheme: in Macadam's development of roads, in the development of the canal transportation system; in the development of rural banks etc etc.
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Oops. You have described Newcomen's atmospheric Engine, not Watt's development of it. Watt introduced steam power above the piston head, as well as a separate chamber, different from the piston chamber, to increase efficiency by not cooling the piston chamber for every piston stroke.
Furthermore, the conversations to this point seem to have missed the point - there was no single cause to the British Industrial Revolution; there were many contributing factors which, peaking over a similar period, eventually produced what we call the Industrial Revolution. For example: the medieval adoption of the mold-board plough which put the 'arable' into the heavy soils of western Europe; the agricultural revolution which improved farming techniques, producing more food more efficiently but reducing the need for agricultural workers, who were thus thrown off the land landing in the squalid cities desperate for any kind of work; Abraham Derby's development of coke from coal, producing a better grade of iron; the development of the triangle trade route between England, Nigeria, Cuba, the cotton plantations of the southern USA [cheap iron goods were traded for Nigerian slaves "niggers," males were sold to the sugar plantations in Cuba, females to the cotton plantations - and the ships took home cotton and capital - both of which were used to establish the cotton factories in England.]
The cotton factories used the unemployed former peasants, selling cotton to the world - and mainly to India, thus transferring wealth from India to England [which is why Ghandi promoted weaving his own cotton in order to get this industry back.] So the development of the British Raj was also important to the British industrial revolution. The Bessemer Process enabled manufacturing large quantities of steel, thus enabling the construction of high pressure steam engines, resulting in workable moving steam engines running on the now available steel rails - the locomotive.
The notion that a small clique of fecund middle class provided the workers for the industrial revolution is amusing, as is the idea that education proliferated with this group. Statistics indicate to the contrary; life span and education were both stunted when comparing urban parishes to rural, parishes during the early industrial revolution. In fact, the industrial wealthy lived shorter lives than the rural agricultural workers at this time.
Space is too short to discuss the economic and educational consequences of religious Dissenters in this scheme: in Macadam's development of roads, in the development of the canal transportation system; in the development of rural banks etc etc.