... was accomplished, was to build factories designed to house new machines, which were far more efficient and faster albeit larger and more expensive. This was why the switch to factory-based systems took place. Richard Arkwright built the first one in Cromford. Style followed later. These factories were ideal for mass production because everything was under one roof and organised by one body. The industrial system pulled efficiency into the equation. The purpose of this essay is to show how well and to what degree the Quarry Bank Mill site incorporates methods and machines introduced in the industrial revolution, including how the mill was built to house these new ideas, inventions and processes and therefore how well it demonstrates a 18th to 19th century mill. The quarry bank mill was built between 1783 and 1784 right next to the river Bollin. In it's early form it was built on a single, solitary rectangle ...

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