HPS211H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spinning Jenny, Thomas Newcomen, Putting-Out System
5 Mar 2013
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The industrial revolution is how we refer to a set of changes that drastically saw the change of the social structure of 19th century britain and on the european continent. It re-arranged not only how society should function, but also how scientists/physicists should be considered in this new world. New theoretical cosmological frameworks were also at the middle of this changing culture. Cottage industry he rise of the machines: science demonstrating practicality, so effective it began to displace traditional professions. Transition: spinning jenny could spin multiple instead of one thread of yarn. Created in 1764 by james hargreaves: he replaced a long history of yarn making in the home, created specifically to increase productivity. Hargreaves himself kept his device secret to increase market value. Price of yarn goes so low that traditional spinning only used personally. Expression of the industrialized times: waste bad, it is morally impermissible to destroy a machine that could increase productivity.
