Week 3 Day 2

Mr. Rick thought us that the need of things keep on rising but the supplies decrease.
the population are doubling every 70 years
he great issue about economics is limited demand and limited resources
growing population and shrinking woods

There were many theories about what cause disease, most people didn't work and when you're sick the medicine given to you could sometimes made your sickness worst.

—The demand of spun cotton increased enormously in England

—Machines for carding and spinning had already been developed but were inefficient.

—Spun cotton was also produced by means of the spinning jenny

—But it was insufficiently strong to form the warp of a fabric—

So they use linen thread

—Producing a type of cloth known as fustian

—In 1769, Richard Arkwright patented a water frame to use the extra power of water mill 

—He chose the site at Cromford because it had year-round supply of warm water

It is from the Cromford Sough which drained water from nearby Wirksworth lead mines, together with Bonsal  

Brook

Here he built a five-storey mill, with the backing of Jedediah Strutt, Samuel Need and John Smalley

Starting from 1772, he ran the mills day and night with two twelve-hour shifts

—He started with 200 workers

More than the locality could provide

So he built housing for them nearby

He is one of the first manufacturers to do so

Most of the employees were women and children

The youngest being only 7 years old

Later, the minimum age was raised to 10

the children were given 6 hours of education a week so that they could do the record-keeping that their parents

could not.

The children working their work twelve hour shifts.

From 6 am to 6 pm or from 6 pm to 6 am

They get 3 breaks

In the morning and afternoon for breakfast and tea

One at midday

—Hair and clothing might get caught in the fast moving machine

—Hands could be trapped

—The air was laden with dust

There was also danger of slipping because of the fast moving water.

The factory was very noisy

—It it hard for the workers to talk  to each other

—They were experts in lip reading

They develop sign language to communicate to each other


There are two teachers for the day, but unfortunately one picture was not taken. Here is the other one.

Mr. Rick teaching us how to do BHQs