The West: A short history of the Western world: from the Middle Ages to the present day by Chris Francis

Author:Chris Francis [Francis, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

As capital for investment in mining and other industrial endeavours accumulated during the 1700s, a series of technological developments in the last half of the century came to characterise the early industrial economy. For the first time large groups of workers where employed to work in a single building, operating rows of machines that produced items at a rate of production vastly greater than that accomplished by the most skilled artisans. This new method of working was pioneered by Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) whose new factory in Cromford, Derbyshire enabled cotton cloth to be manufactured more cheaply than eve before. The technology used in Arkwright’s factory was copied and improved by entrepreneurs and by the early 1800s a loose network of cotton factories existed across Lancashire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire.

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