Textile Mills: Their Innovation and Impact on Society

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When our group found out that this year’s History Day topic was “impact and innovation” we had an epiphany to exemplify what impacted people’s lives the most, so we concluded to do our on project on the innovation in the textile industry and impact of the textile mills. The textile mills provided people with a cheap source of cloth that had an impact on every person’s lives during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In order to get our information on the innovation and impact of the textile mills, as a group we gathered information from various places and did extensive research on our topic. We found a great quantity of information by visiting the Upland Public Library, surfing numerous websites, collecting many primary interviews, and interviewing people on their knowledge of the impacts that the textile mills and the textile industry had on lives then and today.

The research that we collected from the Upland Public Library provided us with a vast amount of critical information on the impacts and innovations of the textile mills. The information we collected and researched ...

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