At the start of the nineteenth century England had how many steam engines?

1. New technology spread far more slowly than its makers claimed. 2. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were no more than 321 steam engines in all of England. 3. Of these, 80 were in cotton industries and nine in wool. _Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_