New York Times
September 7,1842
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater is a skilled British mechanic who came to the United States with designs of textiles mills.Slater claimed he could improve the ways that manufacturing is done in the US. Brown had one of his men test Samuel Slater's knowledge of machines.Slater partners with Smith Brown, and William Almy. Slater has just opened his first mill in Pawtucket Rhode His mill is very successful. Samuel Slater's wife invented a new cotton thread for sewing.
Eli Whitney
The textile industry had many people working.Most workers in the textile industry spun thread to make cloth but it was time consuming. When Richard Arkwright invented the water frame the good make clothing a lot more efficiently but the water frame had to be built by streams or rivers. Great Britain now had the biggest textile industry in the world.
Textile Industry
The textile industry had many people working.Most workers in the textile industry spun thread to make cloth but it was time consuming. When Richard Arkwright invented the water frame the good make clothing a lot more efficiently but the water frame had to be built by streams or rivers. Great Britain now had the biggest textile industry in the world.
Worker's lives on Mills
Rhode Island System VS. Lowell System
The Lowell system wants to bring a different approach.There Idea is to completely change the textile industry in the Northeast. The Lowell system is a water powered textile mill.We have been hiring young unmarried women and we give them a room and supply them with food.The young mill workers became known as Lowell girls.These girls make between 2 to 4 dollars a week.We make them work 12 to 14 hours a day.
VS.
The Rhode Island system was to hire families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.You make money and you will learn a new skill.You will be supplied houses and there will be a company store.The mills employed not only the textile workers who operated the machinery but also machine part makers and dam builders.
Labor reforms and trade unions
Now the workers at the trade union have a fear that they might lose their jobs so they came up with trade unions which is where the try to improve pay and working conditions.Now the unskilled factory workers built trade unions.Some labor unions went on strike because the employers don,t meet there demands. Now the association’s two main goals were to influence and investigate of the working conditions to obtain a 10 hour workday.Most men and women supported to 10 hour work day.Usually the work 12 to 14 hours a day for 6 days a week.
Transportation Revolution and Changes it Brought
Steamboats
Trains
Telegraph
Steam Power
Farm Equipment
In the 1830, technology began transforming the farm as well.Most farmers struggled plowing thick soil.John Deere thought that steel blades might work better.In 1831 Cyrus McCormick invented a better harvesting machine.His machine made it a lot easier to harvest crops.This allowed Midwestern farmers to plat and harvest huge crop fields.