Latitude & Weather : Is Industrialisation generally easier in temperate (vs. hot) climates?

"Northward and stormward flows the course of empire", until it flows back, and then we don't talk about it so much.
 
I wonder, does anybody know how much heat early industrial machines used to give off? If it's a lot, that might be OK in a temperate climate, and absolutely unbearable in a tropical one.

Heating early steam engines was pretty scalding, yes, as is most metalworking for that matter. That's less of an explination for, say, the lack of the rise of animal and water power (wind isent reliable). Though, humidity would play a factor. Excess heat hits harder when you can't sweat as effectively . The horrific conditions in the boiling houses of the Carribean sugar plantations would be an example.
 
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