GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spinning Jenny, Spinning Wheel, Water Frame
20 Apr 2016
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The industrial revolution: starting around 1750 ad, widespread mechanization of production, major industry: textiles. Supported by iron casting and steam engine: the domestication of cotton. Major product of the ancient world: focus on carding and spinning in mechinzation. Carding: clean, realign fibers to be suitable for spinning. Spinning: drawing out fibers to make yarn (then fabric: british east india company (bec) Indian rebellion of 1857: colonies forced by law to grow raw materials and purchase manufactured goods. There is no better way of industrializing the villages of india than the spinning wheel ghandi: major technological innovations in textile production. So quick supplies always ran out faster than they used them. Spinning of raw cotton of more spools at once up to 8. Water frame (1769: application of water power and steam engine. Larger quantities produced: beginning of factory work, factories vs. Factories = beginning of modern wage labour: early factories. Paid labour (origins of wages: powering the revolution.
