Transport innovation
1759- 1830 2200 miles of canals in England. 1807, American Fulton invented the steamboat,1810/year, and Britain began to imitate it. In terms of land transportation, Britain began to use railway tracks in 1765, and set up iron bridges in 1788. 18 14 Stephenson invented the steam locomotive 1825, which was successfully tested on the first British railway. 1844, the British railway has reached 2235 miles.
The above example is a typical scientific and technological revolution, and it is also the beginning of the scientific and technological revolution ... Before that, due to the limitation of productivity, the social economy remained in the primary state of mainly yeoman farmers and relatively unorganized, small-scale and few manual workshops ... The emergence of hydraulic spinning machines and steam engines has greatly improved the efficiency of production and transportation, and involved all aspects of social production. According to the principle of survival of the fittest and maximization of interests, factories and farms with machines as the main productive forces are booming ... In the competition between machines and manpower and semi-manpower, a large number of yeomen and handicraft workshops with backward productive forces are unemployed, and the land on which they depend and the original means of production with competitiveness close to zero are lost ... Feudal owners are able to make a comprehensive transition to capitalists and engage in enclosure movement, and more and more farmers and craftsmen flock to factories and farms ... So, more and more industrial clusters are formed.
From then on, from the feudal landlord's land rent-type yeoman and the primary manual workshop-type feudal economy to the capitalist market economy, it was completely transformed. ......