?What if there was no Industrial Revolution in the 1700's?. I don't think whe can completely do away with it, But maybe delay it by a couple generations.
Power looms are smaller and remain Water powered, Watts steam engine in 1780~1790, 1st Railroads in the 1860's, Telegraph in the 1890's, Telephone in the 1930's,1st HVA in the 1960's, ETC.
?What would happen Politically and Culturally?
No Railways or telegraphs to tie the expanding US together and feed the sense of Manifest Destiny.
No Railways or telegraphs to tie the Princely States of India to the British Raj.
No Railways or telegraphs to Allow the Cape British to outmaneuver the Boers.
No trans-Siberian to move Russian Troops and settlers west to take the Siberian Coast.
No steam engine to move the Industrial Heart from New England to the Great Lakes and the Pennsylvania coal fields.
No Bessmer process to turn out tons of Steel for Railroads and Ironclads
?So What happens to the 19th Century? ?Does the US win the ACW? ?Do Italy and Germany Unite? ?Do Whe just postpone the Great War till the early 21st Century.