Boston Manufacturing Company

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The Boston Manufacturing Company was an early 19th-century American textile firm that pioneered the integrated factory system and helped launch the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

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instanceOf historical organization
manufacturing company
textile company
basedOn British textile technology
capitalSource Boston merchant investors
country United States of America
surface form: United States
developed Waltham-Lowell system NERFINISHED
dissolved late 19th century
employed farm girls from New England
young women mill workers
foundedBy Francis Cabot Lowell NERFINISHED
Nathan Appleton NERFINISHED
Patrick Tracy Jackson NERFINISHED
Paul Moody NERFINISHED
hasArchitecturalStyle early industrial mill architecture
hasEducationalUse case study in U.S. economic history
hasEffectOn growth of factory towns in New England
hasHeritageDesignation part of the American Industrial Revolution heritage
hasHistoricalRole center of early U.S. industrial capitalism
model for later American textile mills
hasImpactOn development of wage labor in the United States
shift from home production to factory production
urbanization in Massachusetts
hasLegacy influence on American labor and industrial policy
hasPart Waltham mill complex NERFINISHED
headquartersLocation Waltham, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
inception 1813
industry textile industry
influenced American factory system
Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills
locatedIn Massachusetts
New England
locatedOn Charles River NERFINISHED
location Waltham, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
notableFor being an early American textile firm
helping launch the American Industrial Revolution
pioneering the integrated factory system in the United States
operatedIn 19th century
ownedBy Boston Associates NERFINISHED
partOf early American Industrial Revolution
product cotton textiles
woven cloth
usedProcess integrated spinning and weaving under one roof
power loom weaving
water-powered spinning
uses water power

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Francis Cabot Lowell coFounded Boston Manufacturing Company
Boston Associates established Boston Manufacturing Company
Patrick Tracy Jackson employer Boston Manufacturing Company
Patrick Tracy Jackson helpedFound Boston Manufacturing Company
Patrick Tracy Jackson boardMemberOf Boston Manufacturing Company