It Was Not Coal That Created the Industrial Revolution

Coal played a huge role in Britain as the source of the first industrial revolution. In 1700, British coal production was five times that of the rest of the world;

The mystery remains, however, that Britain's possession of coal seems to be a fundamental element of the country's escape from the farming trap. But at the same time, germany, France, Japan and the Qing Dynasty, there are large areas of coal fields, but not large-scale mining. The relationship between coal and the industrial revolution is worth distinguishing.

In fact, this is not a question of coal creating an industrial revolution, but of the industrial revolution creating demand for coal.

In other words, the rapid growth of Britain's coal industry is only a sign that wealth and technology have reached a high level.

The strategic significance of coal for Britain's first industrial revolution is now just as big industrial data is made in China in 2025. Because of the power of the steam engine, coal is like a wild horse out of control, becoming the driving force of the industrial revolution. Just as a complex key fits a lock, this similar pattern, for the first time, frees manpower once and for all from the farming era. The foundation of industry started. After a while, the locking procedure was imitated by the world and replaced with fossil fuels and internal combustion engines.

This pattern influenced the industrial history of the following two hundred years.

Comparison of coal with big industrial data

With the ad rise of smart manufacturing, it looks like this model is about to be handed over to big industrial data. At the moment, we must realize that the significance of data for the new industrial revolution, especially for China's manufacturing of 2025, is a new cryptolock model, a model that China's industrialization is not yet familiar with.