The factory system is a method of manufacturing whereby workers and manufacturing equipment are centralized in a factory, the work is supervised and structured...
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A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where...
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It was replaced by inside contracting and the factory system. The domestic system was a popular system of cloth production in Europe. It was also used...
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Industrial Revolution (section Factory system)
power; the development of machine tools; and rise of the mechanised factory system. Output greatly increased, and the result was an unprecedented rise...
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organisational skills earned him the accolade "father of the modern industrial factory system," notably through the methods developed in his mill at Cromford, Derbyshire...
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Technology (redirect from Technology system)
mining, metallurgy, and transport, and the widespread application of the factory system. This was followed a century later by the Second Industrial Revolution...
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The Factory Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom beginning in 1802 to regulate and improve the conditions of industrial...
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Factory was the common name during the medieval and early modern eras for an entrepôt – which was essentially an early form of free-trade zone or transshipment...
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rivers and overland trails to act as parts of a burgeoning factory system. The factory system was a nationally funded and operated trade network, in which...
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Workshops grew in size but were displaced by the factory system in the early 19th century. Under the factory system capitalists hired workers and provided the...
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European companies. In the 1850s, the "American system" was contrasted to the British factory system which had evolved over the previous century. Within...
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known for two works The Natural History of Society (1841) and Factories and the Factory System (1844). In the early 1840s he toured the northern English industrial...
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the water-powered water frame. The spinning jenny helped to start the factory system of cotton manufacturing. The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves...
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product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. Although some were driven by animal power, most early mills were built...
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Trade Factory System was a system of government non-profit trading with Native Americans that existed between 1795 and 1822. The factory system was set...
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than the "spinning jenny", and propelled the adoption of the modern factory system. Another water-powered frame for the production of textiles was developed...
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and contentious. Railroads were the major growth industry, with the factory system, oil, mining, and finance increasing in importance. Immigration from...
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Lowell mill girls (redirect from Lowell Factory Girls)
child labor, which an increasing number of factory owners were disinclined to hire. As the "factory system" matured, however, many women joined the broader...
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and developed by the Ordnance Factory Board for the Indian Navy. The Indian Navy previously procured chaff rocket systems from the Soviet Union. Supplies...
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The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, obs. code: I41), was an astronomical survey using a wide-field survey camera designed to search for optical transient...
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Samuel Slater (section Rhode Island System)
a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System". In the United Kingdom, he was called "Slater the Traitor" and "Sam...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 children's novel...
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The Sadler Report, also known as the Report of the Select Committee on Factory Children's Labour (Parliamentary Papers 1831–32, volume XV) or "the report...
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A factory reset, also known as hard reset or master reset, is a software restore of an electronic device to its original system state by erasing all data...
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The Factory System and the Factory Acts pg. 88 "Lord Ashley and the Ten Hours Factory Bill". London Evening Standard. 8 September 1841. p. 2. "Factory Bill"...
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was the main factor, utilizing mechanization, steam engines, and the factory system. Much of the machinery was purchased from the British. In the Bohemian...
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Shoemaking (redirect from Shoe factory)
with production occurring in large factories. Despite the obvious economic gains of mass production, the factory system produced shoes without the individual...
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and industrialist of the Industrial Revolution and a pioneer of the factory system. Born in Belfast, Ireland, he moved to England and built Quarry Bank...
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was the first large-scale application of modern technology and the factory system. The origins of this industry can be traced back to the early 18th century...
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Slater drew on his British mill experience to create a factory system called the Rhode Island System, based on the customary patterns of family life in New...
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