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Sources of power before steam were:
1) People; human muscle power did most of the world's work for most of history.
2) Animals: horses, or more usually oxen, mules, donkeys. Even a donkey can power a mill if you harness it to a pole attached to a vertical rotating shaft and drive the donkey round and round in a circle all dy.
3) The wind - windmills are now coming back in a big way! and don't forget sailing ships. sailing ships were still used for trade up to the first half of the 20th century.
4) The strongest sort of power - water. Remember that a watermill did not necessarily just grind corn; water power can drive any sort of machinery, and indeed began the Industrial Revolution, which steam merely amplified.
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