Scientific discoveries were encouraged by the Royal Society of London. The inventive genius of the English, as seen in scientists like Sir Humphry Davy, George Stephenson, Dr. Edmund Cartwright and James Watt, favored the Industrial Revolution.

　　New inventions and new methods of production went hand in hand, giving rise to many factories over a span of a hundred years in Britain's countryside.

　　所考词汇：

　　Manageable = easy to handle

　　Unambiguous = clear

　　Concede = admit unwillingly

　　Reconcile = bring together

　　Striking = dramatic

　　Perplexing = puzzling

　　Prevailing = dominant

　　Typified = characterized

　　Preponderance = majority

　　Isolated = separated

　　Harness = utilize

　　Vicinity = neighborhood

　　Inanimate = lifeless

　　Altered = changed

　　Radically = extremely

　　Distribution = delivery

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