January 24, 2022
- British cotton trade with India
- The Great Game: contested trade routes through Afghanistan
- Mercantilism: Zero-Sum Economics
- The Industrious Revolution
- The early British cotton industry
- How textiles were made
- Making thread slowly
- Removing seeds
- Carding cotton
- Distaffs
- Spinning wheels
- Production bottlenecks – only occur if one step becomes faster
- Making thread faster…and faster
- Drum carder → pressure to improve spinning wheel
- Weaving speeded up with flying shuttle → pressure to improve spinning wheel
- James Hargreaves – the Spinning Jenny
- Putting Out System
- Richard Arkwright – the Water Frame
- Samuel Crompton – the Spinning Mule
