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Mr. Crawshays iron works (at Merthyr Tydfil) are
now the largest in Britain. The biggest thing
there is the great water wheel. It is fifty feet
across, and it has the power of fifty horses.
There are six smelting furnaces, and around them
are the forges and rolling mills. Forty years
ago, this place was just a village. Now it is the
largest town in Wales.   Adapted from a book
written by Benjamin Malkin in 1804
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Steam engines built 40 years ago are still in
use. How many horses would have been worn out
doing the same amount of work? How much corn
would they have eaten? Steam engines use coal, so
they give work to miners. And they help to mine
the coal draining water from the pits, and
hauling up the coal. They drive engines in cotton
mills and iron-works, and on railways. They are
cheap to run, so the goods which they help to
make are cheap. Because of this, we sell more
abroad, and we are all better off.   Adapted from
a book written by Andrew Ure in 1835
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The steam engine was used in a wide range of
industries. Before the railway age, though, it
was important only in cotton, iron, and
mining. Costs fell in British industry, and this
made it easier to sell British goods
abroad.   Adapted from a book written by Miss
Phyllis Deane in 1965. The railway age began in
1825.
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Dont come to me with the old tale that the rich
know nothing about the hard life of the poor. If
they dont know they ought to know. We are their
slaves as long as we can work. We pile up their
fortunes with the sweat of our brows. Yet we live
as separate as if we were in two worlds.   Words
spoken by a character called John Barton in the
novel Mary Barton, written by Elizabeth Gaskell
in 1848
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As you enter the factory, the whirring of a
million hissing wheels hits your ears. Then you
see the hundreds of helpless children. They have
lost all trace of health, joy, and youth. Lean
and crooked limbs, pale and sunken cheeks, dim
and hollow eyes make them look old before their
time. Neither these little slaves nor the
whirling spindles they serve ever stop - the
foremen, straps in hand, are watching all the
time.   Adapted from a novel, Michael Armstrong,
written by Mrs Trollope in 1840
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There are now 145 men, 217 women, and 795
children employed at New Lanark mills. The
children are well fed they get oatmeal porridge
with milk twice a day, barley broth for dinner,
and either beef or cheese. They begin work at six
in the morning, and stop at seven at night. Those
under nine years old do not work at all. There is
a school for the children those under nine
attend in the day-time, and the others after
work.   Adapted from an account written by
William Lockhart in 1795