Brittanje se spinnerye begin meganiseer

1764 · global

The spinning jenny, and the water frame and power loom behind it. It is the demand these machines create that makes wool worth growing eight thousand kilometres away - the merinos reach the Cape in 1789, wool is the district staple by 1850, and a million kilograms go through Meiringspoort in the 1870 season. Nearly every farm in this project is paid for by a English mill. [Wikipedia: Industrial Revolution; Spinning jenny]

Bronne

• Brandfort, Free State: founding on the farm Keerom, 1866 - published accounts

Vertel in

• mentioned Een-en-tagtig duisend morg