How far does Quarry Bank Mill demonstrate the methods of factory production introduced during the Industrial Revolution?

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Investigation and Interpretation of Artefactual Remains (Industrial Archaeology)

  The Industrial Revolution brought along extensive changes to the way goods were manufactured and the word ‘industry’ was given a new meaning. The reasons for these changes are simple yet complicated because of the factors of interpretation and then explanation of the evidence to prove certain facts.

  This essay will describe the changes that occurred during the Industrial Revolution and how these changes coincided with the development of Quarry Bank Mill and its counterparts elsewhere. The actual aim of the essay is to discuss how far Quarry Bank Mill demonstrates the features of the Industrial Revolution during the early and later stages.

  Before the Industrial Revolution there were no factories or similar systems where people sold their labour to work in large structures as a team. These were all a result of the initiation of greater minds that received new ideas about what the world should actually be like. These ideas created the basis for mass production in factories as opposed to the slow workings of the Domestic System where each individual family manufactured all goods in the home. Also, during the time of the Domestic System all produce was either kept for home use or it was sold at markets as an extra income. It was never the main source of income as this slot was occupied by the agricultural sector.

  The main reasons for all these fresh ideas emerging were all the new inventions that suddenly came to be mass produced by all sorts of individuals pushing for a better world, or alternatively, to become rich and famous.

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  This essay will also be describing Quarry Bank Mill in detail and comparing it to other noticeable mills around the country at the time and also later. It will include information gathered at an earlier date from an on-site visit and research conducted in class and in own time.

  In 1784, Quarry Bank Mill was a lot smaller than it now is. The building had a rectangular structure, which was 90 feet long and 27 feet wide, and there was no clock tower on this section yet. At the time, the mill was powered by just one ...

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