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 I'm thinking about the history of 1850 to 1860. But, those times are NOT now. So, when I try to apply them to now it is only with limited success regarding U.S. history in how the Violent Civil war began between 1850 and 1860 by states legally going to war with each other over slavery. In other words because of our over abundance of machines and computers running machines now we might assume (and wrongly so) that it was this way then. 

NO. It wasn't. Slaves were the computers and the machines that harvested cotton and did all sorts of other things. Today's machines weren't even invented then.

Though the cotton gin was invented in 1794 it still needed someone to run it.

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In 1712 Thomas Newcomen invented a steam-powered engine. He realised that steam produced by heating water could be trapped in a cylinder and that sufficient pressure could be built up to raise a piston. Scales for weighing socks.

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So, it looks here more like the steam engine was invented as a way of powering  cotton spinning to begin with and not a railroad (at least initially.

The first rail locomotive was built in 1803 in England by Richard Trevithick (1771–1833).Feb 23, 2012

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