Assertion: canal barge | /r/HasProperty | fundamental importance
Facets:
value: in the early industrial revolution
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Canal barges, towed by draft animals on a waterway adjacent towpath were of fundamental importance in the early Industrial Revolution, whose major early engineering projects were efforts to build viaducts, aqueducts and especially canals to fuel and feed raw materials to nascent factories in the early industrial takeoff (18th century) and take their goods to ports and cities for distribution.