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James Hargreaves
(c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) was a weaver, carpenter and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of three inventors responsible for mechanising spinning. Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764, -
Richard Arkwright (22 December 1732 – 3 August 1792)
Sir Richard Arkwright (22 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. Although his patents were eventually overturned, he is credited with inventing the spinning frame, which following the transition to water power was renamed the water frame. He also patented a rotary carding engine that transformed raw cotton into cotton lap. -
Industrial Revolution & Growing Population in cities (London)
As the Industrial Revolution took hold, society's attention turned from the rural home to the urban factory and from human power to mechanical power. Which sprang up across the country, gathered production into centralised locations, employed, hundreds moved to cities for work - cities expanded rapidly and new cities emerged near factories to house the industrial workers. -
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Timeline of the Early Modern World
A timeline that covers the period 1750 to 1918 and locates dates that relate to events and people which connect over this period of History as cause and effect. -
Pt2 Spinning Jenny and city of Manchester
Manchester is widely known as an illustrative example of the industrial revolution, from the positive aspects of economic growth and technological advances to the more negative qualities associated, like over crowding and social stratification. From a climate conducive to the cotton trade to existing canals and transportation mechanisms, Manchester was primed to become an efficient industrial city once cotton mill technology caught up to the existing infrastructure. -
The Spinning Jenny & City of Manchester
Invented by James Hargreave,the spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. -
Richard Arkwright & Modern Industrial System
Arkwright improved the carding machine to make a stronger yarn/ less physical labour (patented 1775) and he constructed a horse-driven spinning mill. He developed mills in which the whole process of yarn manufacture was carried on by one machine /further complemented by a system in which labour was divided, thus improved efficiency and profits. He was first to use James Watts' steam engine to power textile machinery. The power loom was eventually developed from this. -
Implementation of the Factory System & City of Birmingham
In the course of the 1700s Birmingham rose from a small town of about 7000 people to the third largest city in the country in 1800 and it would continue to grow. The factory system replaced the domestic system, in which individual workers used hand tools or simple machinery to fabricate goods in their own homes or in workshops attached to their homes. The use of waterpower and then the steam engine to mechanise processes such as cloth weaving in England in the second half. -
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)
Henry Ford was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle-class Americans could afford. Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would impact the landscape of the 20th century. -
Pt2 Industrial Revolution And Growing Population
In 1750, only about 15 per cent of the population lived in towns. By 1900 it was 85 per cent. By 1900, London had 4.5 million inhabitants, and the biggest other towns were Glasgow: 760,000 and Liverpool: 685,000. Manchester and Birmingham had more than half a million people each. -
Henry Ford and Mass production & The Great War WW1
Changed the automobile industry - Model T ford 1908-27 significant catalyst for change in American Industry and culture. It was Ford's vision of mass production and its subsequent implementation that had harnessed the industrial might of the United States and had helped make staggering wartime production goals attainable. -
The Great War - WW1 & Ford 1914
Ford was a pacifist who believed that war was created by people who stood to profit from them. In relation to WWI Henry said in his autobiography, My Life and Work, that “I have never been able to discover any honourable reason for the beginning of the World War. It seems to have grown out of a very complicated situation created largely by those who thought they could profit by war.”
