Industrialisation: Why Britain Got There First, with Nicholas Crafts, University of Warwick 2/2 

The British never talked about the source of finance that made the industrial revolution possible. Also, who provided the market, as the industrial revolution was not self-sustaining. The answer was India, particularly Bengal, which the British want to hide. Bengal was occupied, in practice, by the British, in 1757. Industrial Revolution started in 1760.

Britain from 1800 to 1900. 20,000 Waterwheels decreased in number. Windmills decreased in number. Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared. Not very rich Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10,000,000 !!! For every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 we now had an additional 500 Steam Engines in 1900 !!! In one human lifetime. That's an increase in Power Output and so Productive Capacity, for the whole country of 500 times !!! And it was all due to only one Invention, James Watt's Invention of the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine. It was a Power Revolution. James Watt dumped Newcomen's Atmospheric Power and Arkwright's Water-Power for Steam Power. No Steam Power and Steam Engines no Industrial Revolution. Nothing to do with Spinning and Weaving technology, that was all to do with unfair trading schemes. Pretty simple really, surely I can't be the only one to see that?