TXMI 4250 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Elias Howe, Industrial Espionage, Steam Engine

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors
• Course: TXMI 4250
• Professor: Vessels

Document Summary

Centuries of hand sewing and tailoring shops. Civil war created the ready to wear industry: military uniforms, today, most of the technical and sizing standards used today were born in military specifications. Immigrants from england brought over the technology for building mechanical looms and setting up textile mills. No international laws in place to protect british companies from this happening. Textiles first employed women outside the home-mill villages. Paid for room and board with 1. 75 sent home per week. Mo(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t for (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s rights (cid:449)as pio(cid:374)eered (cid:271)(cid:455) these (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) First apparel factory was in philadelphia to make uniforms for the war of 1812: doing basic cutting etc, actual assembly operations done at home. Barthelemy thiamonnier-credited with creating the first sewing machiene-1830 ish. Elias howe invented a hand crank machine-perfected the sewing machine that preformed a lock stich-where apparel manufacturing started coming into existence.