So lately I've been researching textile manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution, and quite a number of links popped up. So I figured I'd share them!
So if you are looking for a chronology of textile manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution, here is a great place to start. It provides succinct information and goes even more in depth for many of the innovations.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blindustrialrevolutiontextiles.htm
This website provided a very detailed chronology of textile manufacturing. However, it doesn't supply you with the ability to really look into a certain invention.
http://www.saburchill.com/history/events/022.html
It takes one word to describe this website: Cotton. I mean this site is cotton CRAZY! Who knew you could know so much about cotton? Anyways, this website provides an extremely detailed timeline of cotton and also explains the effects of the industrial revolution in England.
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/chrono1.html
Some questions that I still have are:
* How is it possible for these machines to really work without a computer or anything? I mean, especially the Jacquard loom. Sure, it can weave patterns out of silk, but how could you have a machine do that?
* Why did people accept such low wages and such miserable living conditions? Haven't they heard of a revolt?
* If I were to compare a person of today and a person from that time, whom would have a more developed personality? Which one would be considered stronger? Why?
* Who were the ones that made factories? Was it private investors / rich folk? Or was it England?
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