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And going even farther back, the British industrial revolution was built on producing cheap copies of Indian textiles.
by azernik 7y ago
And going even farther back, the British industrial revolution was built on producing cheap copies of Indian textiles.
- cat199 7y ago... using machines that british people invented. get the overall point, but not sure this is a good example.
- arcticbull 7y agoI think that is specifically the point. The copycats automate and improve, then dominate.
- fsloth 7y agoUS copied british factories by industrial espionage to bootstrap their own industry and eventually became the bigger industrial producer...
- JackFr 7y ago"On December 20, 1790, water-powered machinery for spinning and carding cotton was set in motion in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Based on the designs of English inventor Richard Arkwright, a mill was built by Samuel Slater on the Blackstone River. The Slater mill was the first American factory to successfully produce cotton yarn with water-powered machines. Slater was a recent English immigrant who apprenticed Arkwright's partner, Jebediah Strutt. Samuel Slater had evaded British law against emigration of textile workers in order to seek his fortune in America. Considered the father of the United States textile industry, he eventually built several successful cotton mills in New England and established the town of Slatersville, Rhode Island." https://www.thoughtco.com/richard-arkwright-water-frame-1991693 https://www.thoughtco.com/richard-arkwright-water-frame-1991...
- tobltobs 7y agoAnd the label "Made in Germany" was once created by the British to protect their own manufacturing from cheap clones from Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
- JackFr 7y agoWell, they were cheaper because the industrial revolution was basically the British inventing the textile industry.