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00:02:14 1 Elements of the Industrial Revolution
00:05:32 2 Processing of cotton
00:06:12 3 Industry and Invention
00:08:13 4 Early Inventions
00:08:24 4.1 East India Company
00:12:30 4.2 Britain
00:16:22 4.3 Timeline of inventions
00:19:11 4.4 Start of the Revolution
00:25:07 4.5 Later developments
00:27:18 4.5.1 Robert's power loom
00:28:10 4.5.2 Robert's self acting mule
00:29:36 5 Working practices
00:34:47 6 A representative early spinning mill 1771
00:37:18 7 A representative mid-century spinning mill 1840
00:39:57 8 Export of technology
00:43:02 9 Art and literature
00:44:08 10 See also
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution in Britain was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines. In Germany it was concentrated in the Wupper Valley, Ruhr Region and Upper Silesia, in Spain it was concentrated in Catalonia while in the United States it was in New England. The four key drivers of the Industrial Revolution were textile manufacturing, iron founding, steam power and cheap labour.
Before the 18th century, the manufacture of cloth was performed by individual workers, in the premises in which they lived and goods were transported around the country by packhorses or by river navigations and contour-following canals that had been constructed in the early 18th century. In the mid-18th century, artisans were inventing ways to become more productive. Silk, wool, and fustian fabrics were being eclipsed by cotton which became the most important textile.
Innovations in carding and spinning enabled by advances in cast iron technology resulted in the creation of larger spinning mules and water frames. The machinery was housed in water-powered mills on streams. The need for more power stimulated the production of steam-powered beam engines, and rotative mill engines transmitting the power to line shafts on each floor of the mill. Surplus power capacity encouraged the construction of more sophisticated power looms working in weaving sheds. The scale of production in the mill towns round Manchester created a need for a commercial structure; for a cotton exchange and warehousing. The technology was used in woollen and worsted mills in the West Riding of Yorkshire and elsewhere.
