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U.S. History 1877-present 3: Industrial Revolution, wool, textiles, machinery 1009 Views
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First Industrial Revolution. Second...Industrial...Revolution... Ugh, how many more? We're getting dizzy here.
Transcript
- 00:03
Sure most people know that once there was a thing called the [Factory appears]
- 00:06
Industrial Revolution but what some people don't know is that there was
- 00:10
actually two of those bad boys they were called cleverly the first Industrial
- 00:15
Revolution and the Second Industrial Revolution you know we know their
- 00:20
marketing departments could have been a little more creative let's start at the [Man in meeting at marketing department]
Full Transcript
- 00:23
beginning part 1 the first Industrial Revolution or the story of the British
- 00:27
sheep that changed the world must have been all the tea they drink well the [Sheep drinking tea]
- 00:31
first Industrial Revolution began in britain around seventeen seventy and
- 00:34
basically consisted of taking all the things people did by hand and making
- 00:38
machines through them instead let's look at what was probably the biggest example [Man stood by machine conveyor belt]
- 00:42
she no wait not sheep yet we have to start with textile the sheep will come
- 00:47
later try to contain your excitement man all right what our textile well that's a [Herd of sheep in a field]
- 00:52
fancy technical thinning name but it's actually a simple concept textiles means
- 00:56
a drumroll please slots yep this cloth as in clothing or clapping yeah you know [Woman with blue cloth]
- 01:03
what clothes are made out of so people have been making clothes for a pretty
- 01:06
good number of centuries before the late 1700s all that time cloth making had [Person sheering a sheep]
- 01:10
involved first shearing a sheep or harvesting a plan and then going through
- 01:14
a gazillion step process to turn the raw materials in the cloth people were [Man holding cloth]
- 01:18
making cloth in 1750 the same way they've made it when the Romans were
- 01:22
thinking about starting an empire completely by hand since the process was
- 01:26
long dirty and tiresome it was done by women or slaves or white guys I know
- 01:31
just kidding we were just seeing if everyone is still paying attention with
- 01:33
that last one there were no white guys making cloth but it's the late 1700s [Sunset appears]
- 01:37
done textile production was about to be transformed or revolution I so enter the
- 01:42
sheet Britain was the sheep capital of the world at that time and had been [Sheep wearing a crown]
- 01:47
making money by exporting wool to Europe for centuries but suddenly cheap cotton
- 01:51
from India was threatening that British wool industry well cotton could be spun
- 01:55
into cloth more quickly than wool and British colonial merchants were shipping [British merchant stood with pile of cotton]
- 01:59
tons of cotton back home so the Colonials wanted loads of cash but so
- 02:03
did the folks back home so wool barons at home got the British government to
- 02:08
put limits on the amount cotton that could be sold in Britain and
- 02:12
crack the whip on wool producers to start cranking out more wool but how [Man cracks whip at herd of sheep]
- 02:16
could they there was no way to speed up the process of turning raw wool into
- 02:20
woollen cloth unless a machine sitting and that's exactly what some wool
- 02:25
producers did they hired engineers to brainstorm ways to mechanize wool [Engineer brainstorming machines]
- 02:29
production to use machines for the repetitive time-consuming part of the
- 02:33
process those repetitive tasks didn't require a lot of attention and [Man appears by cotton machine]
- 02:37
brainpower so machines could be trusted with them and machines could run for
- 02:41
hours at a time without stopping to eat or sleep or you know go to the bathroom
- 02:45
well so cool ematic 5004 potty a lot but it was soon discontinued in favor of [Poopomatic 5000 sheep drops a poo on the floor]
- 02:51
more efficient model at first the machines were small and each one muted a
- 02:55
human to tend it but the machine quickly grew to become huge contraption and
- 03:00
someday they'll send an Arnold Schwarzenegger cyborg back from the [Terminator appears]
- 03:03
future to destroy us all so hey at least there's something to look forward to
- 03:07
I'll be back
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