the ‘spinning jenny’, which was the earliest of a succession of inventions that enabled the industrialization of cotton spinning. The name ‘jenny’ for his machine came from the words ‘engine’ and its shorter
1855, he realised there would be demand for iron and it could be the foundation for Spanish industrialization. At the age of 45 he determined to become an industrialist. In Madrid, he sought investment
One of the characteristics of industrialization is specialization: the concentration of production of certain products in a few places or a few companies. An example of such specialisation is the domination
