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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786 This petition by workers in Leeds (a major center of wool manufacture in Yorkshire) appeared in a local newspapers in 1786. They are complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers. See also the Letter from Cloth Merchants 1791, defending machines. To the ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: William Radcliffe: On Power Looms, 1828 . . . The principal estates being gone from the family, my father resorted to the common but never-failing resource for subsistence at that period, viz. - the loom for men, and the cards and hand-wheel for women and boys. He married a spinster, (in my etymology of the word) and my mother taught ...

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Steam Engine Library A collection of historical documents relating to the history of the steam engine. Steam engine library search engine - enter search keywords: Search For From Steam Engine Library in Complete File Head Section Body Section Title Books on line The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria from the original Greek, translated for and edited by Bennet Woodcroft. London, Taylor Walton and ...

Story of the Industrial Revolution with biographies of the inventors engineers and reformers.

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835 Andrew Ure (1778-1857), a professor at the University of Glasgow, was an enthusiast for the new manufacturing system. Here he represents the views of a new class: the manufacturers whose wealth derived from ownership of factories. This island is pre-eminent among civilized nations ...

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization Table 1 Percentage Distribution of the World's ManufacturingProduction, 1870 and 1913 (percentage of world total) 1870 1913 USA 23.3 35.8 Germany 13.2 15.7 U.K. 31.8 14.0 France 10.3 6.4 Russia 3.7 5.5 Italy 2.4 2.7 Canada 1.0 2.3 Belgium 2.9 2.1 Sweden 0.4 1.0 Japan | 1.2 India |- 11.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Richard Guest: The Steam Loom, 1823 Initial advances in the manufacture of textiles used older methods of power provision - water-mills and so forth. It was the application of steam power which accelerated the centralization of textile production in factories. The new powered machines also leading to the substitution of women and ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791 This statement by the Cloth Merchants of Leeds (a major center of wool manufacture in Yorkshire) defended the use of machines. It appeared in 1791. See also the Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786, attacking machines. At a time when the People, engaged in every other Manufacture in the Kingdom, ...

Tell me when this page is updated A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution A Study by Narvell Strickland As I study and ponder history, I often recall the old adage that 'if we want to understand ourselves, we must study the history of our ancestry.' That adage may have contributed to my decision to embark on this study. The study, recorded in the book 'A History of Mississippi ...

Xu Chen's Global Studies project on the Industrial Revolution. Its causes and effects.