History 398 Lecture 5 THE FACTORY

1. History 398 Lecture 5THE FACTORY The term factory, in technology, designates the combined operation of many orders of workpeople, adult and young, in tending with assiduous skill a system of productive machines continuously impelled by a central power Andrew Ure, Philosophy of Manufactures (1835), 13 History 398 Fall 2004

2. From Agriculture to Industry:Elements of Transition • Old system - “cottage industry” • New system, embodied by factory • Triggers • Role of steam engine History 398 Fall 2004

3. Manor shearing washing carding spinning dyeing weaving fulling market Town History 398 Fall 2004

4. machinery power factory materials market transport transport workers finance History 398 Fall 2004

5. machinery power factory materials market transport transport workers finance Development of Factory • Power machinery, introduced process-by-process over about 100 years • Capital costs • Location • Structure • Continuous operation • (with people around) • Need for new skills, esp. machine builders and repairmen History 398 Fall 2004

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