-"... an industrial revolution, a revolution which at the same time changed the whole of civil society."
-manual labor to mechanized production
-machines powered by inanimate energy
James Hargreaves
-"Spinning Jenny" (1768)
Richard Arkwright
-Water frame (1769)
-Thomas High
-factory system
Samuel Crompton
-Water Mule: combined power of the water frame with fineness of the Spinning Jenny (1779)
Edmund Cartwright
-power loom
James Watt-launched the age of steam power (1769)
-John Wilkinson: precision parts
-Matthew Boulton: mass-produced parts for the engine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Luddites
Workers
Optimists vs Pessimists
Cottonopolis = Manchester
Cottonopolis = Manchester
