The Industrial Revolution was a huge exploration in itself. People were exploring new ways of doing everything from farming to clothes making. People wanted everything to be mass-produced and faster, so they built machines that could do better jobs than any human could. People were no longer needed for many of the things they did so were forced to take any job they could. Lots of them would be put to work in factories fixing and maintaining the machines that lost them their jobs in the first place. A great machine that came out of the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine. The first types were steam pumps, the best invented by Thomas Newcomen, which were used to pump water out of mines, pump drinking water into towns and to blow air into furnaces. James Watts adaptation led to further developments including the steam powered generator, which was portable and could be used anywhere. The steam engine is mostly associated with the steam train but was also used in mining elevators and powering factory machines. The invention of these machine changed peoples lifes everywhere, things were faster, easier and more efficient. More things could be made in the same time, and they would be better quality.