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The real innovation with the steam engine during the industrial revolution was metals strong enough to hold enough pressure for the engine to be capable of powering meaningful work. But the industrial revolution was initially quite slow as these labor saving devices cost significantly more than the labor they saved. It took the technology existing and the labor costing more than it would cost to implement the machinery before the industrial revolution could fully begin