As you can see the Steam Engine started as a simple water pump and was formed in power supplier and eventually into a transportation system and helped bring about the industrial revolution. The reason that the Steam Engine was one of the greatest inventions in history is because it started out as something as simple as a water pump could be changed and modified to efficiently produce power, and power what basically is a train, and supply power to buildings and factories during the industrial revolution and to this day is relied on to power some machines that we use
