UPSC 2017 CDS II GK Paper

All the given factors are responsible for the Industrial Revolution that took place in England in the eighteenth century. The location of the coal and iron ore mines close to each other encouraged the English to evolve new techniques for the manufacturing of iron and utilisation of coal. James Watt invented the steam engine using it to create a new form of power. Introduction of railways played a very important role in the rapid supply of raw materials throughout England.