Factories and shops need a good road network to move their goods.If an area has good roads,new factories, offices and shops may be built there , attracting new jobs
The roman emperor Hadrian had a wall built in Scotland.
Cars. Before the car people lived in or around the city center . After ww2 the men returned and the growth of suburbs took off. People built industry away from the center because the land was cheaper and there was plenty of it. Developers came in and made housing developments for the new families that needed places to live nearer the new factories and industry. Soon people wanted stores near where they lived and shopping centers were built. Schools were built, more houses, and freeways to connect everything and so people could get to places faster. The big department stores and fast food places soon were added and enclosed malls were built. All of this is the result of the car.
Stonehenge.
Great Britain has been called the workshop of the world because of its leadership in the Industrial Revolution. England built more factories and production facilities than any other nation during that time.
Francis Cabot Lowell
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Mainly in the eastern half of the US, cause the west wasn't explored yet. They were usually along rivers so that the water could be used as power. It was also more in the Northern half, like PA or NY.
parents and children working together in mills
In 1789, Samuel Slater, a british worker, brought the secret of Britian's textile mills to North America. Slater built a machine to spin thread. In 1813, a group of Massachusetts investors built textile factories in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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McArthurGlen build the first factory in engalnd
Samuel Slater
This came straight out of my American History book. In 1789 Samuel Slater came to America from England. In Rhode Island Slater built factories that had spinning machines. Before long there were many textile mills in the North. This came off of Google. Samuel Slater was an English American.
Many businesses built factories in New England and the mid-Atlantic states after the War of 1812.
The first textile mills were built in New England. The first yarn spinning mill was in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in the late 1700's. The first true textile mill was built in Boston around 1830. Soon many other mills dotted New England. There are still a few mills operating in the original old buildings in Fall River, MA, but overall the mills are few and far between.
Francis Cabot Lowell built a cotton spinning and weaving mill in Waltham, Massachusets, USA during the war of 1812, based on his observations of British textile mills, he built the first factory to process raw cotton and produce finshed cloth under the same roof. Sir Richard Arkwright, (1732 - 92) pioneered the use of water and horse driven factories at Nottingham in England in 1769. In 1771 he moved to Derbyshire and was dominant in the early cotton industry. So the Brits win again.