that more of the people were engaged in manufacturing industry than agriculture (Deane 255).
             One major point that allowed Britain to become industrial was the increasing number of workers and population of England. The rate of growth of population, of course, depends basically on the rate of natural increase, that is, on the difference between birth rates and death rates; and there are certain biological and physical limits to the extent to which these are likely to vary (Deane 20). The rate of growth in England before the revolution was so slow, that an English statistician at the beginning of the eighteenth century estimated that the number of people would not reach the population of eleven million until the year 2300 (Dietz 3). Since 1780, the growth England substantially increased. England went up by 52 percent to over nine million inhabitants from 1750 to 1801 and reached thirty-six million in 1910 (Dietz 15).
             The invention of the steam engine was the Industrial Revolution's most fundamental advance in technology. For the first time in history, humanity had unlimited power at its disposal. Inventors and engineers could devise and implement all kinds of power equipment to aid people in their work (McKay 730). The steam engine promoted important breakthroughs in other indus
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