HIST1094 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jacquard Loom, Cotton Gin, Samuel Morse
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Making the industrial revolution: 1) textiles technology. Since the ~1650s, textile tech had been slowly advancing started picking up close to the 1800s. 1768: richard arkwright invents water ffram, dramatically improcing spinning speeds. 1803: eli whitney invents cotton gin, vastly simplifying processing cotton for spinning: 2) energy and metals. 1784: james watt develops first vacuum-chamber pistol, creating the steam engine as we know it first used to pump water out of mines. Numerous advances in making iron and steel stronger, cheaper, and lighter throughout 1700s and 1800s, culminating in bessemer process for creating cheap steel, 1856: railroads. Increased the production of bulk goods (textiles, metals, coals) spurs improved overland transport. 1830: george stephenson develops first steam-locomotive (the rocket) and first inner-city rail line (manchester to liverpool) Rapid overland travel and instant communications now possible between areas linked by rail and telegraph. Heavy outset of capital and admin repairs. Britain brought all of these things together, kinda forming the industrial rev.
