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    453). There were many inventions that came along that helped the process of cotton. The spinning jenny that was invented by James Hargreaves‚ could produce up to six to twenty-four times more yarn than a hand spinner could (Cole et al. 453). There was also a spinning mule that could produce than more yarn than a spinner. The cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney could separate the cotton seeds from the fiber; therefore it could

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    Nature and Scope of Operations Management Operations management is often used along with production management in literature on the subject. It is therefore‚ useful to understand the nature of operations management .Operations management is understood as the process whereby resources or inputs are converted into more useful products .A second reading of the sentence reveals that‚ there is hardly any difference between the terms produ7ction management and operations management .But‚ there are a least

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    “Industrial Revolution implies industrialisation – that is‚ both the absolute growth of industry‚ and its expansion relative to the other sectors of the economy‚ those being agriculture and services.” This was the time that financial production moved from the use of hand tools to the use of power machinery‚ powered mostly by coal and steam. The method of powering machines went from using the working-class to powered machines doing all the work for the working-class. These machines were able to work

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    New inventions and different machines have made hard work‚ easier. The world has benefited from most machines made throughout imperialism. For example: the spinning jenny helped make cloth‚ which evolved into making clothing like shirts and pants. The world even uses similar inventions today in factories. Although they are more advanced‚ the ideas of these machines came from these times of imperialism. During

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    The American antebellum South‚ though steeped in pride and raised in military tradition‚ was to be no match for the burgeoning superiority of the rapidly developing North in the coming Civil War. The lack of emphasis on manufacturing and commercial interest‚ stemming from the Southern desire to preserve their traditional agrarian society‚ surrendered to the North their ability to function independently‚ much less to wage war. It was neither Northern troops nor generals that won the Civil

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    Hakeem Amer 900113273. The Industrial Revolution One of the most influential revolution of all time‚ without this breakthrough that changed how the whole world live their lifes ‚ I wouldn’t be able to be doing this assignment right now on a computer. So what is the industrial revolution? Where did it take place? How did it really affect way we live today? All these question will answers in the following paragraphs. Although it occurred around the same time as the French‚ American‚ and

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    After the Industrial Revolution started‚many people used the “Spinning Jenny” by James Hargreaves‚and the “Flying Shuttle” by John Kay.Few years later‚ two inventors created two inventions that changed the way of transportation.James Watt invented the steam engine so machines won’t be power by water anymore.Then there

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    research and experimentation for knowledge to better understand the outside world. Britain’s culture believed in shared intellect‚ so they were willing to spread their knowledge to others. Economically Britain was on top from James Hargreaves’ spinning jenny‚ which was used to weave cloth together. Britain would export vast amounts of cloth throughout Europe which would bring in tons of profit. Soon Britain would start trade with its neighbors in Asia; India and China. As trade grew‚ dilemmas would

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    The industrial revolution that transformed western Europe and the United States during the course of the nineteenth century had its origins in the introduction of power-driven machinery in the English and Scottish textile industries in the second half of the eighteenth century. But far more than the cotton textile industry was transformed in the course of that revolution. Non-industrial wage labor increased; urban centers grew; and in farming areas‚ outwork occupations and commercial agriculture

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    THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN GREAT BRITAIN The Great Britain was the first country to undergo industrial revolution which according to Musson and Robinson (1969) is the "transformation of a predominantly rural‚ agricultural and handicraft society into a predominantly urban‚ industrial and mechanized society" (60). Indeed the modern world owes a lot to British pioneers of the 18th and 19th century like Abraham Darby‚ Richard Arkwright‚ John Wilkinson‚ Samuel Crompton‚ Thomas Newcomen and James Watt

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