Introduction:
Advances in transportation and
communication changed Britain in a lot of ways in the Victorian era. These
advances made Britain the largest and most powerful trading nation in the
world. The steam engine was the main advancement in transportation, seeing as
how it started the idea of the steam train, which helped revolutionize
transportation in Britain. The way the steam engine works is coal
is burned; the heat that this coal produces is used to turn water into steam;
this steam is used to turn the wheels in the engine.
