As the “snowball effect” continued, all previous factors mentioned, namely, development of textile area, first inventions towards technological development and coal mining resulted into development also in iron-making area. All the previous factors that were more than successful encouraged inventors for new discoveries opening up new opportunities and horizons. As coal mines got deeper due to the broad usage of coal, they were filling up with water – the problem was eventually answered by inventing steam-powered water pumps. Britain now had an enormously large source or supply of power that further made significant changes in availability of iron and steel. Although iron had been important to European technology since the Middle-Ages, its production was expensive what limited the use of it. In early 18th century availability of coal and development of steam-powered engines, that were capable to make necessary circumstances to produce iron, changed the whole iron industry. The iron now was more available as its production was significantly cheaper, meaning that it now became more widely used – in different machineries, that later caused need of specialists that were able to maintain their working, even more important – the railways that had played significant role in transportation of goods as well as people through centuries since then.…
