Why were the Industrial Revolution's new processes slow to spread from England to other countries? ...

Why were the Industrial Revolution's new processes slow to spread from England to other countries?
 
  A) The breakdown diffusion of innovations, which kept new ideas and techniques from spreading .
  B) England treating industrial techniques as state secrets to protect their technological knowledge.
  C) The relative ignorance of non-English peoples when it came to mechanical devices.
  D) The fear of steam and its potential for dangerous scalding of human skin.
  E) England failed to understand the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution so the information was not communicated.