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[The Elder Scrolls] If there is mages who can create powerful lightning bolts, why hasn't Tamriel entered a Industrial Revolution?

 One of the most simple Destruction spells that exists, "sparks" already seems to generate bolts with significant amps, being able to overcome air resistance and shoot lightning with precision, if even a novice wizard can achieve such feat, why isn't this a more common of energy generation?

 One could argue they don't have resources to harness electricity, but there are several Dwemer experts who seem to slightly understand their technology, this small knowledge should be enough to come up with a contraption to store electricity, but they don't seem to come up with anything?

 I know that some cultures and regions would be against such a thing, like the Bosmer of Valenwood, but some places, like High Rock are brimming with magic users and Dwemer technology Scholars, why haven't they started a industrial revolution if they clearly have the means to?
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>Dwemer

This is the main reason for the lack of an industrial revolution in Tamriel.  The Dwemer *did* have an industrial revolution, and it ended very poorly for them. 
So poorly the entire race no longer exists. People researching the Dwemer (such as Arniel Gane in Skyrim) tend to have bad things happen to them as well, so overall people are reluctant to follow in the Dwemers footsteps.

Beyond that, Tamriel is currently in a temporary dark age.  In the past, the Empire had a space navy and space stations (TES Battlespire occurs entirely on one such station).  The high elves had Sun Birds, which were ships that could also fly into space.  In the (dubiously canon) future, robots and time travel will be developed, and those robots will travel back in time to wreak havoc on the past, like Pelinal Whitestrake who made it his cyborg mission to fuck up the Ayleid empire, and KINMUNE which is probably the thing that the College of Winterhold questline is about.