Polish revolt against Russian rule is unsuccessful.
1834: British mathematician Charles Babbage completes drawings for the "analytic engine," a forerunner of the modern computer that he never builds.1834: American inventor Cyrus H. McCormick patents his reaper, a horse-drawn machine for harvesting wheat.1835: American inventor and painter Samuel F. B. Morse constructs an experimental version of his telegraph, and American inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver.1837: Victoria is crowned in England.1841: Act of Union joins Upper Canada and Lower Canada, which consist of parts of the present-day provinces of Ontario and Quebec, respectively.1846: American inventor Elias Howe patents his sewing machine. Event and Its Context
The Ten Hours Movement
The first few decades of the nineteenth century in Britain saw a movement for the amelioration of factory conditions. These movements became stronger in the early 1830s and brought together workers who were organized into Short Time Committees in the textile districts of the North of England and Scotland. The committees had allies among the landed classes, notably the Tory activist Richard Oastler and a minority of factory owners. In 1830 Oastler's letter to the Leeds Mercury, titled "Yorkshire Slavery," compared the lot of child laborers in the Bradford worsted factories unfavorably to that of African slaves in the West Indies, and attracted much attention.
This is a free page. This page contains 198 words. This
article contains 1,959 words (approx. 7 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Article with our Factory Act Access Pass.
