In 1870, the first sock was knitted by a machine invented by a Swedish immigrant. The inventor’s name is John Nelson. With his innovation, he opened a factory to produce mittens and he eventually decided to make socks with his machine. The factory he founded is located in Rockford, Illinois. His sock factory with automatic knitting machines, eventually led to the creation of the distinguished red heeled sock monkey. Sock Monkeys can be found in numerous households and became a popular craft in…
Multiple innovations increased the production of cotton dramatically, but Eli Whitney’s cotton gin was the most influential. The South’s cotton production increased by 800%, which caused an increase in needed labor due to the harvesting being so labor-intensive. Slaves spent their lives doing hard work for little or no wage, and were merely motivated to keep working by their own fear of being beaten or killed. Some slaves sought the dangerous task of resilience, but others believed they could…
Fibers are everywhere in everyone. Fibers are threadlike elements from fabric or other materials such as carpet. They are mostly identifiable under a microscope, Fabrics are helpful in forensics in many ways. Fabrics are made fiber strands that are much longer than they are wide and generally round on cross section. These fibers may be from natural or synthetic sources.The main reason why fabrics are helpful is because fibers are in clothing,upholstery, carpet, rope, and building components.…
The twelfth chapter, “Cotton Is King: The Antebellum South, 1800 - 1860”, features the labor-intensive processes of cotton production. Moreover, details the significance of cotton to the Atlantic and American antebellum economy. Apart from these objects, the chapter, more importantly, highlights all aspects of slavery within the United States in the vicinity of the 1800’s to the 1860’s (Corbett et al. 12.1). During the Antebellum period, the South grew cotton and it became a lucrative crop.…
In The White Scourge, Neil Foley addresses how the construct of whiteness in Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affected the structure of society. Neil Foley is the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern Methodist University. His research concerns race and civil rights in Mexico and the American Southwest. Foley structures his book chronologically, beginning with the Texas Revolution in the first chapter and ending with the 1930s and 1940s. He focuses his study…
New inventions created during the Industrial Revolution, such as the cotton gin and steamboat, led to an increased requirement for cotton. The production of this raw material resided mostly in the South, which would then be transported to the North for manufacturing in factories. The 1800s marked an important time during this time period for the South because each decade showed a cotton production that was two times more than the first (Olsen-Raymer). Cash crops such as sugar…
millennium BC on the Indus River. A woven and madder- dyed cotton fragments were found wrapped round a silver pot which is preserved by metallic salts which impregnated the cloth (Barnard N. & Gillow J., 1991: 41). India sent cloth to many countries even before the 17th century. India realized the importance of trading and the benefits it could give to the country.…
States. The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 as a solution to the difficulties of harvesting seeded short staple cotton, gave rise to the Cotton Kingdom. The Cotton kingdom was the catalyst for the market revolution, a period of time during the 19th century that transformed the economic structure of America into an industrial empire. In time, the Cotton Kingdom became the “major independent variable in the... structure of internal and international trade” (Takaki 77). If the cotton…
economic, social, and political history of capitalism on the specific commodity of cotton. Writing of such topics is what the book is primarily about, as he expresses why the history of cotton is so important today and revealing harsh information of capitalists, and what capitalism was five hundred or so years ago. Mentions of slavery were to be included as they had an extremely large influence with the history of cotton and the empire it was built on. The book although long, was not so boring…
America during the 18th century. As the North became increasingly industrialized and urbanized, there was less demand for slaves. Different from the North, the South vastly depended on slaves to work on the cotton plantations. The industrialization of the North and the rapid growth of cotton industry in the South divided the nation during the 19th century. It was a regional issue that both sides increasingly disagreed on the issue of abolishing slavery in the United States. Some Northerners…