industrial revolution

In class we discussed the industrial revolution. During the industrial revolution there was the exploration age. This was mostly European based. The Europeans discovered "The New World" (USA). One thing that I was really interested in about the Industrial Revolution was the concept of the cottage industry becoming the factories. I never really thought about the way that factories were created and now it makes sense that they were created through the cottage industry. The three main things that were done in the cottage industry were spinning, weaving, and carding. All three are different ways to make clothing and other cloth things. The factories took these things and supplied the cloth and thread and had large groups of people work in one building and make the clothes. One thing that professor brought up was that now we are not producing our own products we are selling our work (wage labor). I am excited to learn more about how the industrial revolution helped to build up cities.