Why did the industrial revolution happen in Europe during the 18t/ 19th century??

Some people might wonder why wasn't China the first to invent all these industrial machines? And after researching, I found that China was so advanced that they had other tools that werent machines to do their work for them, so thats one reason why Europe was the first to create all these innovations. Another reason was because Europe and many other countries are always competing, and so Europe was trying to be ahead so they tried to think of as many new inventions as they could, they were also looking for ways to make jobs easier & that's why they were inventing machines such as the Cotton Gin because they wanted to get more done in a lower amount of time.
But Europe didnt magically start building new inventions in the 18th/9th century, because a lot of their inventions were thought of before but not untill the 18th/19th century did they actually start to work better than before and now they were actually more handy.