234 Furnace

After lunch, Zhu Wencong returned to visit the research institute, which could be described as small yet complete in every way.

The first industrial revolution was mainly founded on three key technologies: textile machinery, steam engines, and steel refining, unfolding sequentially in that order.

The invention of textile machinery also indirectly awakened the capital behemoth, concentrating all the wealth from the populace and investing it into industry.

Driven by capital, steam engines were also manufactured, further accelerating the industrial process and its pace in the world.

With the advent of the mechanical giant, the steam engine, human steel refining technology made a substantive breakthrough.

With steel came railways, and with steam engines came steam locomotives, which allowed for the dumping of textiles en masse.

This was the first industrial revolution in human history, and also the historical origin of capital's descent into the world: