by Allysa Garza
Technology and the factory system
The Industrialization button is for a quick overview of what Industrialization was and how it was achieved.
Technology
Flying shuttle created by John kay
- Speed up the weaving process
- Stimulated demand for thread
- First important invention during the Industrial Revolution
The Mule created by samuel crompton
- Used steam power
- Turned out strong, fine thread of much higher quality than any human worker could accomplish
- Was exceptionally fast
iron and steel
Coke (purified coal)
- Used instead of expensive charcoal
- Built a bigger blast furnace
- Sparked the Iron production
- Helped make the industrial machinery stronger
steel
- Harder
- Stronger
- Very expensive
- Helped make the factories
high tech machines
refined blast furnace created by henry bressemer
- Known as the Bessemer Converter
- Made it possible to produce cheap steel
- Bigger quantities of steel
locomotive created george stephenson
- Ran by steam
- Burned to much coal for sea
- Most effective means of transprtation
Steamships
- Carry huge cargoes
- Lowered transportation costs
- Creation of dense transportation networks
- Could go in narrow rivers
- Benefited from innovations
THE FACTORY SYSTEM
- Replaced the putting out system
- Emerged when technological innovations transformed the British textile industry
- Brought workers together
- Enabled managers to impose strict discipline
- Led to the emergence of the owner class
- Owners would buy things that the workers couldn't afford and the workers made extremely low wadges
- Fluctuations in the weather and the setting of the sun didn't determine start and finish time
- Machines were not very safe
luddites
- English hand craftsmen went on a protest against the new technology
- Blamed the low wages and unemployment
- Their leader was "King Lud" named after a man named Ludlam
- Broke out in Nottingham
- They would ware masks and attack workplaces and break machines at night
- The government took very small notice to this