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Powering the IndustrialRevolutionIn Britain one of the most dramatic changes of the Industrial Revolution was the harnessing of power. Until the reign of George m (1760-1820) , available sources of power for work and travel had not increased since the Middle Ages. There were three sources of power ： animal or human muscles; the wind, operating on sail or windmill; and running water. Only the last of these was suited at all to the continuous operating of machines, and Powering the IndustrialRevolution In Britain one of the most dramatic changes of the Industrial Revolution was the harnessing of power. Until the reign of George m (1760-1820) , available sources of power for work and travel had not increased since the Middle Ages. There were three sources of power ： animal or human muscles; the wind, operating on sail or windmill; and running water. Only the last of these was suited at all to the continuous operating of machines, and although waterpower abounded in Lancashire and Scotland and ran grain mills as well as textile mills, it had one great disadvantage: streams flowed where nature intended them to and water-driven factories had to be located on their banks whether or not the location was desirable for other reasons. Furthermore, even the most reliable waterpower varied with the seasons and disappeared in a drought, the new age of machinery, in short, could not have been born without a new source of both movable and constant power. The source had long been known but not exploited. Early in the century, a pump had come into use in which expanding steam raised a piston in a cylinder, and atmospheric pressure brought it down again when the steam condensed inside the cylinder to form a vacuum . This atmospheric engine,“ invented by Thomas Savery and vastly improved by his partner . Thomas Newcomen, embodied revolutionary principles, but it was so slow and wasteful TPO 06 Paragraph 1 : Paragraph 2: Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential infor