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Factory Life (Factory conditions (factory conditions were dark and…
Factory Life
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Factory experiences
Children in factories were usually orphans because you could give them food and a bed instead of payment which means it was easy cheap labour
Children were lied to: an example of this is a boy who was told he was going to be made into a gentleman and plum pudding and roast dinner signed up for working in a mill when he got there he only got rid of all the hard wooden bench and he had to stay there until 21
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One girl in the factory tried to escape because the doors left open but Sue was caught and by the head by the warden and cut off close to the head wit a sharp knife
Machines
The steam engine was the machine invented in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen then in 1763 James Watt major new version of this engine which is much more reliable and successful and he had an idea to use them in factories this idea caught on and by 1800 there were more than 500 in English factories
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by John Hargreaves it made the user be able to spin eight threads instead of one
The power loom was invented by Edward Cartwright in 1784 it was used to weave cotton, his first one in 1785 was extremely crude but he made improvements and so they were all over the north-west of England
Railways were very important to the industrial revolution they provided a new way of transporting goods easily and cheaply over long distances
Factory Reforms
Laws
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1848 Public health act: established Central Board of health in London and established local boards of health for places with a High mortality rate was
Titus salt
About Titus suit: Titus saw that his factory workers working in bad conditions and often died he realized this was because of partly the smoke so he replaced his boilers with more environmentally friendly one night this boiler suit tried to sell it to other people but they said it was too expensive so you continued with Sue's ambition of making work better for his workers and sold all his factories and built a whole village where his workers could live in houses and go to the meal every day which give them much cleaner and nicer conditions so they weren't scared when they came to work.