Saturday 26 February 2011
Next Meeting?
I just wanted to let you know I won't be in on Monday so when is the best time for everyone to meet up again?
Friday 25 February 2011
The Industrial Revolution
Some quotes I found and typed up from: The Industrial Revolution By Stewart Ross, 2008
"At the time of the British Revolution, another important change was taking place - the Agricultural Revolution." (14)
"The most common view is that it was already happening when the Industrial Revolution started, and the two revolutions went on at the same time."
"The Agricultural Revolution involved 3 things: larger farms, an increase in production, and more efficient farming." (14)
"Larger farms left the countryside peopled by farm owners and landless labourers. As the population was increasing, man landless labourers. As the population was increasing, many landless labourers could not get jobs. They went to look for work in the towns, helping make up the workforce in the new mills and factories." (14)
"One of the major industries of the Industrial Revolution was the manufacture of cotton cloth. It was based in Lancashire, where cotton could be easily worked in the damp atmosphere."
Trade was improved through the building of 'turnpikes' - roads kept in good order by charging travellers a toll, "by 1750s most of the main roads out of London were turnpikes.", Lochs and the first canal in 1757.
"The textile industry benefited from Lewis Paul's machine for carding (combing) raw cotton and from John Kay's flying shuttle, which speeded up weaving." (16)
Cloth production was one of the first industries to get caught up in the Industrial Revolution.
"In 1750 the British textile industry was using about 60 million tons of raw wool and 2.5 million tons of raw cotton a year. The figures for 1800 were about 100 million tons of raw wool and over 50 million tons of raw cotton." (20)
"after Richard Arkwright's construction of a water-driven spinning machine (the water frame, 1769), the cloth industry began slowly to become factory-based."(20)
"until the Industrial Revolution most industrial processes, from weaving cloth to making guns, were carried out in workshops or people's homes. From about 1750, some industries (led by textiles and iron) began to switch from small-scale production to large-scale factory (or mill) production."(22)
"The mills and factories of the early Industrial Revolution were generally big brick buildings, some many storeys tall. They were built near a source of power for driving their machinery." At first they were next to a fast-flowing stream or river, then when steam power was more common they were built near coal fields.(22)
the Industrial Revolution affected the north and west of the country more than the south and east because they had reserves of coal and other minerals for support.
"Cotton mills were based in Lancashire, close to the port of Liverpool where cotton arrived from the USA...Because workers needed to live near their places of employment, rows of small houses were put up around the mills, factories and mines. These house were often badly built, with poor water supplies and drains." (22)
I don't know how much you'll want to use but it's a start.
"At the time of the British Revolution, another important change was taking place - the Agricultural Revolution." (14)
"The most common view is that it was already happening when the Industrial Revolution started, and the two revolutions went on at the same time."
"The Agricultural Revolution involved 3 things: larger farms, an increase in production, and more efficient farming." (14)
"Larger farms left the countryside peopled by farm owners and landless labourers. As the population was increasing, man landless labourers. As the population was increasing, many landless labourers could not get jobs. They went to look for work in the towns, helping make up the workforce in the new mills and factories." (14)
"One of the major industries of the Industrial Revolution was the manufacture of cotton cloth. It was based in Lancashire, where cotton could be easily worked in the damp atmosphere."
Trade was improved through the building of 'turnpikes' - roads kept in good order by charging travellers a toll, "by 1750s most of the main roads out of London were turnpikes.", Lochs and the first canal in 1757.
"The textile industry benefited from Lewis Paul's machine for carding (combing) raw cotton and from John Kay's flying shuttle, which speeded up weaving." (16)
Cloth production was one of the first industries to get caught up in the Industrial Revolution.
"In 1750 the British textile industry was using about 60 million tons of raw wool and 2.5 million tons of raw cotton a year. The figures for 1800 were about 100 million tons of raw wool and over 50 million tons of raw cotton." (20)
"after Richard Arkwright's construction of a water-driven spinning machine (the water frame, 1769), the cloth industry began slowly to become factory-based."(20)
"until the Industrial Revolution most industrial processes, from weaving cloth to making guns, were carried out in workshops or people's homes. From about 1750, some industries (led by textiles and iron) began to switch from small-scale production to large-scale factory (or mill) production."(22)
"The mills and factories of the early Industrial Revolution were generally big brick buildings, some many storeys tall. They were built near a source of power for driving their machinery." At first they were next to a fast-flowing stream or river, then when steam power was more common they were built near coal fields.(22)
the Industrial Revolution affected the north and west of the country more than the south and east because they had reserves of coal and other minerals for support.
"Cotton mills were based in Lancashire, close to the port of Liverpool where cotton arrived from the USA...Because workers needed to live near their places of employment, rows of small houses were put up around the mills, factories and mines. These house were often badly built, with poor water supplies and drains." (22)
I don't know how much you'll want to use but it's a start.
Thursday 24 February 2011
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Message From Tutor Phil
This was on our course group blog and asked to pass it on to everyone in the group.
It outlines the requirements/basic structure for presentation.
Also sorry i missed the meeting yesterday, i hadn't been keeping track of the blogs while at home over the weekend and didn't see the conversation till yesterday evening.
Could someone give me quick outline of what i missed if anything important. Thanks
Just a reminder to the Time Machine Managers and their teams - you need to ensure the flow of your resulting collaborative presentations for the symposia satisfy the 'Time Machine 9' - you may want to copy/paste this criteria into a specific post on your respective TM Blogs. Information is just information until you impose a structure on it (an argument or through-line or particular spin). Indeed structure is key to successful assignment writing, crit presentations and online interim reviews... You should be very familiar with this criteria already, but see below for a refresher...
1) A clear introduction to your presentation, which should also mention the different published sources you have used and your reasons for choice. You should use no less than 5 published sources to inform your presentation.
2) A clear definition of key ideas relating to your given topic, with supporting evidence in the form of, no less than, 3 quotations from 3 different published sources. Quotations must be interpreted and their importance discussed, they should also be referenced correctly using the Harvard method.
3) The cultural context (political and social) in which the topic came out of/was in reaction to.
4) An illustrated ‘who’s who’ of key individuals associated with given topic, with a clear explanation of what you think their significance is and why.
5) Historical examples of key words/images/artefacts associated with given topic and an assessment of their importance.
6) Contemporary examples of key words/images/artefacts associated with given topic and a comparison to the historical examples.
7) A ‘bullet point’ conclusion.
8) A bibliography and illustration list correctly set out using the Harvard method.
9) A PDF version of presentation for uploading to myUCA.
Saturday 19 February 2011
Book quotes.
Some are really long I just thought it would be better to have whole sections and pick and choose rather than accidently missing something useful. Let me know if you want me to research more into certain sections I just went through the first few chapters of Bertha S. Dodge's Cotton: The Plant That Would Be King so there's more if we need it.
"Would any sane nation make war on cotton?" Senator Hammond demanded of his colleagues, then answered the rhetorical question himself. "Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us, we could bring the whole world to our feet. The South is perfectly competent to go on one, two, or three years without planting a seed of cotton...What would happen if no cotton were furnished for three years?...this is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilised world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton, No power on earth dares make war on cotton. Cotton is King." (2)
"At the time of Senator Hammond's speech, nothing else seemed to matter. For most of his colleagues there was to come a time of reckoning, but, as it was to turn out, the senator would not be alive to draw lesson from it. That lesson could be summed up in a few sentences - the plants that, for various reasons, people let themselves become dependent upon come to exercise a tyranny out of all proportion to their own intrinsic worth." (3)
"Spinning has always had a hold on the imagination of people who find a special fascination in the spinner's power to transform fine fibres into long, strong threads that may further be spun into ropes or set on looms to be woven into fabrics of infinite variety and design." (4)
"On many a frieze carved in ancient Greece or Rome sit those three sisters Fates in whose hands rests human destiny; Clotho, the youngest, wielding a distaff from which she spins the thread of life; Lachesis, the middle one, measuring off that thread for the inexorable Atropos to sever. In later times, when the pagan legends of ancient Greece and Rome had become outmoded, the magic motif survived. Many children of our own times have been entertained by centuries-old folk-tales in which some much abused maiden, being set the task of spinning a roomful of flax into gold, succeeds with the help of some superhuman being, to end in the arms of a Prince Charming whose throne she will eventually share."(4)
"To today's beholder, this conversion of a handful of fluff into usable threads still smacks of magic, even where the device used to achieve this feat is no more sophisticated than half a gourd shell, in which is twirled a foot-long slender stick bearing a sticky ball of clay about four inches from one point." (5)
"Cotton is a multinational plant, and one or another of its many varieties is native to most of the warmer regions of this earth. Long used by human beings, it was, nevertheless, slow to acquire snob value. No yearning for fine cottons sent sixteenth-century galleons roaming distant seas. No greed for controlling lands where cotton grew native set nations of the seventeentth century at odds. In fact, though older than recorded history and native to romantically distant lands, cotton was to make no great stir with Europeans until after the nineteenth century had dawned and the age of machines was ushered in. No one could then have been persuaded that this shrub...was destined to play a large and dramatic role in the affairs of nations." (10)
"Fifteen centuries were to pass before Europeans began to take an active interest in the plant itself and then only as one among many botanical curiosities featured in the newly popular herbals of the day." (11)
On cotton garments being sent from employees of the English East India Company to their families in England "their delight was so potent, with the new fabric becoming so fashionable, that imported cottons were soon being seen as a menace to the place long occupied by traditional English woolens." (14)
"By 1700, thoroughly alarmed and undoubtedly under pressures from their constituents, members of Parliament had decided to put a stop to it all by passing a law limiting the importation of cotton fabrics. It did not seem necessary to include raw cotton fiber in the interdiction - a loophole on which cotton fanciers soon zeroed in. Presently, the manufacture of cotton piecegoods was to be almost entirely transferred from India to Britain." (15)
Eighteenth century, looms become faster "The single-thread spinners had already been having a hard enough time meeting the demands of the old-style cottage looms. Multiplying the speed of looms meant, of course, multiplying the demands, which required either a tremendously increased number of spinners or a greatly increased number of threads that each spinner could produce. The time for spinning machines had come." (24)
"John Wyatt of Birmingham, who devised in 1738 a machine for "spinning by rollers". For a long time, John Wyatt received little credit for his part in this important invention since, because of personal money problems, he did not try to patent it in his own name but used the name of a more solvent associate. Furthermore, Wyatt's invention was presently superseded, if not actually copied, by the man now usually creditted as the inventor of the spinning jenny, one Richard Arkwright" (24)
Hargreaves facts "Descirbed as "illiterate and a stout, broad-set man about five feet ten inches high" (30)
"Mobs formed and headed for Hargreaves' home, gutting it and destroying both his hated machine and his loom. They could not, however, destroy his idea or his skills, which moved with him to another town where he formed a partnership with a man who would build a small cotton mill using the new spinning jenny. This gave the inventor enough cash to pay for a patent - dated July 12, 1770. As inevitably as spinning machines were to become an accepted part of the burgeoning cotton industry, there would arise claims that Hargreaves has appropriated the inventions of others. The actual fact, however, was that others were infringing upon Hargreaves' rights, making him an entirely legitimate member of the company of inventors. (31)
"Would any sane nation make war on cotton?" Senator Hammond demanded of his colleagues, then answered the rhetorical question himself. "Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us, we could bring the whole world to our feet. The South is perfectly competent to go on one, two, or three years without planting a seed of cotton...What would happen if no cotton were furnished for three years?...this is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilised world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton, No power on earth dares make war on cotton. Cotton is King." (2)
"At the time of Senator Hammond's speech, nothing else seemed to matter. For most of his colleagues there was to come a time of reckoning, but, as it was to turn out, the senator would not be alive to draw lesson from it. That lesson could be summed up in a few sentences - the plants that, for various reasons, people let themselves become dependent upon come to exercise a tyranny out of all proportion to their own intrinsic worth." (3)
"Spinning has always had a hold on the imagination of people who find a special fascination in the spinner's power to transform fine fibres into long, strong threads that may further be spun into ropes or set on looms to be woven into fabrics of infinite variety and design." (4)
"On many a frieze carved in ancient Greece or Rome sit those three sisters Fates in whose hands rests human destiny; Clotho, the youngest, wielding a distaff from which she spins the thread of life; Lachesis, the middle one, measuring off that thread for the inexorable Atropos to sever. In later times, when the pagan legends of ancient Greece and Rome had become outmoded, the magic motif survived. Many children of our own times have been entertained by centuries-old folk-tales in which some much abused maiden, being set the task of spinning a roomful of flax into gold, succeeds with the help of some superhuman being, to end in the arms of a Prince Charming whose throne she will eventually share."(4)
"To today's beholder, this conversion of a handful of fluff into usable threads still smacks of magic, even where the device used to achieve this feat is no more sophisticated than half a gourd shell, in which is twirled a foot-long slender stick bearing a sticky ball of clay about four inches from one point." (5)
"Cotton is a multinational plant, and one or another of its many varieties is native to most of the warmer regions of this earth. Long used by human beings, it was, nevertheless, slow to acquire snob value. No yearning for fine cottons sent sixteenth-century galleons roaming distant seas. No greed for controlling lands where cotton grew native set nations of the seventeentth century at odds. In fact, though older than recorded history and native to romantically distant lands, cotton was to make no great stir with Europeans until after the nineteenth century had dawned and the age of machines was ushered in. No one could then have been persuaded that this shrub...was destined to play a large and dramatic role in the affairs of nations." (10)
"Fifteen centuries were to pass before Europeans began to take an active interest in the plant itself and then only as one among many botanical curiosities featured in the newly popular herbals of the day." (11)
On cotton garments being sent from employees of the English East India Company to their families in England "their delight was so potent, with the new fabric becoming so fashionable, that imported cottons were soon being seen as a menace to the place long occupied by traditional English woolens." (14)
"By 1700, thoroughly alarmed and undoubtedly under pressures from their constituents, members of Parliament had decided to put a stop to it all by passing a law limiting the importation of cotton fabrics. It did not seem necessary to include raw cotton fiber in the interdiction - a loophole on which cotton fanciers soon zeroed in. Presently, the manufacture of cotton piecegoods was to be almost entirely transferred from India to Britain." (15)
Eighteenth century, looms become faster "The single-thread spinners had already been having a hard enough time meeting the demands of the old-style cottage looms. Multiplying the speed of looms meant, of course, multiplying the demands, which required either a tremendously increased number of spinners or a greatly increased number of threads that each spinner could produce. The time for spinning machines had come." (24)
"John Wyatt of Birmingham, who devised in 1738 a machine for "spinning by rollers". For a long time, John Wyatt received little credit for his part in this important invention since, because of personal money problems, he did not try to patent it in his own name but used the name of a more solvent associate. Furthermore, Wyatt's invention was presently superseded, if not actually copied, by the man now usually creditted as the inventor of the spinning jenny, one Richard Arkwright" (24)
Hargreaves facts "Descirbed as "illiterate and a stout, broad-set man about five feet ten inches high" (30)
"Mobs formed and headed for Hargreaves' home, gutting it and destroying both his hated machine and his loom. They could not, however, destroy his idea or his skills, which moved with him to another town where he formed a partnership with a man who would build a small cotton mill using the new spinning jenny. This gave the inventor enough cash to pay for a patent - dated July 12, 1770. As inevitably as spinning machines were to become an accepted part of the burgeoning cotton industry, there would arise claims that Hargreaves has appropriated the inventions of others. The actual fact, however, was that others were infringing upon Hargreaves' rights, making him an entirely legitimate member of the company of inventors. (31)
Friday 18 February 2011
Thursday 17 February 2011
Quick Delegation Question!
I was just wondering what people think about the talking side of the presentation?
I'm really not confident with this, the research doesn't bother me at all but the talking makes me feel a bit sick. Is there anyone that feels really happy to be the spokesperson/people? I don't mind doing it if it seems fairer I just don't want to weaken the presentation with my frozen brain :P
We don't have to decide yet I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the matter.
I'm really not confident with this, the research doesn't bother me at all but the talking makes me feel a bit sick. Is there anyone that feels really happy to be the spokesperson/people? I don't mind doing it if it seems fairer I just don't want to weaken the presentation with my frozen brain :P
We don't have to decide yet I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the matter.
Cotton: The Plant That Would Be King
I just got this book form the library and it looks like it has some pretty nice stuff about the history of cotton and its significance. I'll read through it today and get some stuff typed up tonight! :D
Wednesday 16 February 2011
What time when?
small industrial revolution timeline
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blindustrialrevolutiontextiles.htm
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blindustrialrevolutiontextiles.htm
Spinning Jenny!
A page of information I found, sorry if it's not great I'm just trying to work out where to start!
Tuesday 15 February 2011
First Meeting
Have notes of research from different topics on the spinning jenny for Thursday after the seminar.
So yea guys have fun with that.
So yea guys have fun with that.
Saturday 12 February 2011
Meeting
So yea since we haven't all had a meeting about what we are actually doing about this presentation and blog stuff, shall we get together some point next week. We could do a lunch time or after uni. what time is best for everyone?
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