Theories of Technological Progress and the British Textile Industry from Kay to Cartwright

P. K. O'Brien, T. Griffiths and P. A. Hunt

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 1996, vol. 14, issue 3, 533-555

Abstract: The cotton textile industry remains central to all accounts of the first industrial revolution. Innovations in this period precipitated an extraordinary acceleration in the growth of output and a steep decline in the cost of producing all varieties of cloth. In this paper we outline an explanation through an analysis of the community of inventors responsable for the technological transformation, which enables us to offer some new generalizations of the pace and pattern of the inventive activity in this period.

Date: 1996
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