Science in the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century probably did more to shape life in the modern industrialized world than any event in history. There were many events that led to the industrial revolution in Europe. For starters, people in general were becoming more and more disenchanted with corruption in the Church. Due to advances in printing more people were learning to read. This allowed them to read the Bible for themselves and begin to question the Church. Protestant religions began to develop in which it was permissible to make money rather than donate it all to charity. This change in thought gave people the opportunity to question nature and retain their spirituality and place with God. The focus of this discussion is not the role of the decline in the Church in the Industrial Revolution but the importance of science. However it is important to realize that this change in belief systems played a role in allowing people to study science.Science provided a way for intellectual people to study nature and the interactions of the different forces, such as magnetism and gravity, that affect the world in which we live. Discoveries made through science can later be used to help man in his everyday life. Even today scient
A more recent example of how science effects technology can be seen in the development of nuclear power. Without the use of Einstein's theories the mysteries of atomic power may still be evading man today. However due to the theories developed by Einstein man has harnessed nuclear power. The theories of men such as Galileo, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and Joseph Black helped shape the technologies being developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the late 1760's James Watt perfected his separate condenser. His design allowed the cylinder to be kept at a constant temperature. A separate condenser solved the problem of having water collect in the cylinder because the water was heated and cooled in the separate vessel. Watt had been working on an old Newcomen engine and trying to improve its performance. He was discussing his problems with the engine with a chemist by the name of Black. Black was working on a theory of latent heat, which he explained to Watt. Watt applied this theory and came up with the separate condenser. Watt teamed up with a man named Boulton and they began to market the separate condenser. They had a unique payment plan in which they collected a fraction of the annual fuel savings generated by the separate condenser over the Newcomen engine as payment. The separate condenser was more efficient and reliable than the Newcomen engine and became more widely accepted. In 1698 Thomas Savery improved on the same basic idea. He used the steam engine to pump water out of mines. This was one of the first applications of technology to industry. Thomas's engine did not contain a piston but used the partial vacuum created by the engine to suck the water up and out of the mine. For our purposes here we will assume the development of the steam engine started with Galileo in the 17th century. Galileo introduced a theory of atoms. Although he never actually said the word "atom" he described it in great detail. The Church did not support the atom theory, as they believed it went against the teaching of the Bible. The Church preferred the idea that "empty" space was just that, empty, not filled with tiny particles called atoms. The reason Galileo never uttered the word "atom" was to avoid the wrath of the Church. He ended up being pla
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