The Lowell System Arrangement
Industrial Revolution: A Change in Ways
The Journey
This mill has workers coming in and out, and will be looking for more sometime soon. Girls in these mills will have gone through getting harmed but also for the help of Lowell. In this mill, there are textile machines including the flying shuttle which allows weavers to weave at a faster pace. Another is Spinning Jenny, invented by James Hargreaves, this machine was an improvement of the spinning wheel. The water frame was another machine along with the many, that was the first of many textile machines that made cloth and fabric from cotton.
Women of the Mill
These women in this picture worked in the mill for many years. By their faces, you can tell, mill work was hard.
Mill Machines
This picture shows one of machines that worked in the mill. This machine would spin and weave thread.
Francis Cabot Lowell
This picture shows Francis C. Lowell. He is the official inventor of The Lowell System that opened in 1814.