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第八章 The Industrial Revolution 工业革命 (第3/47页)
and trade. Ongoing British trade of tobacco, sugar, tea, and slaves internationally was largely a result of this control. Secondly, Britain’s national banking system provided it with capital from investments and a surplus of finances for which to use in commerce on the international scale. New inventions of the time included John Kay’s “flying shuttle”weaving device and George Stephenson’s“Rocket”railway train, along with innovations such as Abraham Darby’s thought to use coal instead of charcoal in order to create fuel, as well as Henry Bessemer’s renovation of steel production. Each of these improvements aided both the production and transportation of products and materials used for
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