The invention of the cotton gin in the late 18th century revolutionized agriculture, economics, and society in ways that ...

New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century ...

The volunteer-led Gayle Mill which is located in the Yorkshire Dales dates back to the 18th century and rose to national ... and was built as a water-powered cotton mill by two local Quaker ...

By the late 18th century there were 19 metalworks at Holywell and 14 potteries at Buckley; Holywell and Mold had cotton mills; lead and coal mines proliferated. Bersham, where the Wilkinson family ...

One study carried out during this time found that children who worked in the Belfast mills had less energy and were smaller than children who worked in the cotton ... In the 18th Century there ...