Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption, The Newcomen steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The engine was commonly found in coal ...

The Industrial ... there was no steam involved. Belgian inventor Étienne Lenoir developed the first commercially successful internal combustion engine in 1860. Though rudimentary and fueled ...

Cassie Newland visits a Mill in Burnley which was one of the first factories ... industry but the steam engines developed by Newcomen and Watt drove the industrial revolution forward.