How did the technologies of Eli Whitney and James Hargreaves create a “bottleneck” in British manufacturing?
a) Whitney’s and Hargreaves’s inventions vastly increased the production of cotton thread beyond the capacity of traditional weaving methods to use it all.
b) Whitney and Hargreaves created, at least early in the Industrial Revolution, an insurmountable set of manufacturing costs for their products.
Consider This: Until Whitney developed the cotton gin, the bottleneck was between raw cotton and Hargreaves’s technology. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions.
c) Whitney’s and Hargreaves’s inventions undercut British labor since their technologies relied on American slaves.
Consider This: Until Whitney developed the cotton gin, the bottleneck was between raw cotton and Hargreaves’s technology. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions.
d) Whitney and Hargreaves insisted that anyone using their products pay an exorbitant fee to them, which many manufacturers could not afford.
Consider This: Until Whitney developed the cotton gin, the bottleneck was between raw cotton and Hargreaves’s technology. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions.
a) Whitney’s and Hargreaves’s inventions vastly increased the production of cotton thread beyond the capacity of traditional weaving methods to use it all.
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