Foto antigua fabrica textil en Lichtensteig St.Gallen. Suiza. c. 1930 Photography textile manufactures Switzerland
El canton suizo de St. Gallen fue uno de los centros textiles más importantes de Europa desde finales del siglo XIX hasta bien entrado el siglo XX.
Su origen como centro textil se remonta a mediados del siglo XVI y tuvo un gran desarrollo hasta bien entrado el siglo XVII.
Sera, sin embargo, a finales del siglo XIX con el desarrollo que permiten los telares automáticos cuando alcance una gran expansión llegando a producir este cantón la mitad de la producción textil de Suiza.
En estas fotos podemos ver el exterior de una estas fábricas textiles formada por varias naves alargardas unidas entre si formando una gran superficie con gran cantidad de maquinaria y ...muy pocos operarios. El desarrollo de los telares automaticos implicaban mucho menos gente trabajando, eso sí necesitaban fuentes de energía próximas y de ahi que se situasen en lugares cercanos a saltos de agua.
Las otras dos fotos corresponden al interior de la fabrica con los telares de diferentes tipos dispuestos ordenadamente y, aparentemente, trabajando solos, un cierto aire fantasmal.
Los telares son de la marca Rüti que reciben este nombre por la localidad donde se fabricaban. Ruti había alcanzado una gran fama con sus telares manuales pero logró perfeccionar uno de los primeros modelos de telares mecanicos fabricado por Northrop y lograr con ello una gran expansión internacional llegando, incluso, a toda la zona de Cataluña.
Sobre la industrialización
El 29 de noviembre de 1814 se imprimía por primera vez el periódico Times en una prensa movida por el vapor.¿Qué ramo de la producción fue el que más se benefició de la mecanización? Parece que los historiadores de la economía están de acuerdo en admitir que fue la industria textil la pionera en estos cambios. "Cualquiera que mencione la Revolución industrial está refiriéndose al algodón", afirma Eric J. Hobsbawm, y aduce como símbolo de este espectacular desarrollo de la industria textil la ciudad de Manchester, que entre 1760 y 1830 pasó de tener 17.000 habitantes a 180.000.
Sin embargo, uno de los pasos más importantes hacia el desarrollo de máquinas accionadas por fuerza mecánica en la industria textil fue el bastidor movido por fuerza hidráulica patentado por Richard Arkwright en 1768 y que se comenzó a producir masivamente a partir de 1785. Otro paso crucial en este proceso fue el que dio Edmund Cartwright cuando también en 1785 construyó un telar automático capaz de corresponder a la abundante hilaza proveniente de las máquinas de Arkwright, obteniendo un hilo fino y fuerte que no se rompía.
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En ( google translator)
The Swiss canton of St. Gallen was one of the most important textile centers in Europe since the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth century.
Its origin as a textile center dates back to the mid-sixteenth century and had a great development until well into the seventeenth century.
Sera, however, in the late nineteenth century with the development that allow automatic looms when you reach a major expansion coming to this county produce half of textile production in Switzerland.
In these pictures you can see the exterior of a textile mill such alargardas craft comprises several joined together to form a large area with a lot of machinery and ... very few operators. The development of automated looms involved far fewer people working, that did need sources of energy coming and there they were located in nearby waterfalls places.
The other two photos are inside the factory with looms of different types arranged neatly and apparently working alone, some ghostly.
The looms are of the brand Rüti get their name from the town where they made. Ruti had achieved great fame with their handlooms but managed to improve one of the first models of mechanical looms manufactured by Northrop and thereby achieve a major international expansion continues, including the entire area of Catalonia.
On industrialization
See Art History in Castilla y Leon
The November 29, 1814 was printed for the first time the Times newspaper in a move by the vapor.¿Qué branch of production was the most benefit from mechanization? It seems that economic historians agree in admitting that the textile industry was the pioneer in these changes. "Anyone who mentions the Industrial Revolution is referring to cotton," says Eric J. Hobsbawm, arguing as a symbol of this spectacular development of the textile city of Manchester, which between 1760 and 1830 grew from 17,000 to 180,000.
However, one of the most important steps towards the development of mechanical power-driven machines in the textile industry was moved by hydraulic power rack patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768 and began producing massively from 1785 Another crucial step in this process was the one who gave Edmund Cartwright in 1785 when he also built an automatic loom able to match the abundant yarn from Arkwright machines, obtaining a thin, strong thread that was not broken.
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St. Gallen
textle industry
En ( google translator)
The Swiss canton of St. Gallen was one of the most important textile centers in Europe since the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth century.
Its origin as a textile center dates back to the mid-sixteenth century and had a great development until well into the seventeenth century.
Sera, however, in the late nineteenth century with the development that allow automatic looms when you reach a major expansion coming to this county produce half of textile production in Switzerland.
In these pictures you can see the exterior of a textile mill such alargardas craft comprises several joined together to form a large area with a lot of machinery and ... very few operators. The development of automated looms involved far fewer people working, that did need sources of energy coming and there they were located in nearby waterfalls places.
The other two photos are inside the factory with looms of different types arranged neatly and apparently working alone, some ghostly.
The looms are of the brand Rüti get their name from the town where they made. Ruti had achieved great fame with their handlooms but managed to improve one of the first models of mechanical looms manufactured by Northrop and thereby achieve a major international expansion continues, including the entire area of Catalonia.
On industrialization
See Art History in Castilla y Leon
The November 29, 1814 was printed for the first time the Times newspaper in a move by the vapor.¿Qué branch of production was the most benefit from mechanization? It seems that economic historians agree in admitting that the textile industry was the pioneer in these changes. "Anyone who mentions the Industrial Revolution is referring to cotton," says Eric J. Hobsbawm, arguing as a symbol of this spectacular development of the textile city of Manchester, which between 1760 and 1830 grew from 17,000 to 180,000.
However, one of the most important steps towards the development of mechanical power-driven machines in the textile industry was moved by hydraulic power rack patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768 and began producing massively from 1785 Another crucial step in this process was the one who gave Edmund Cartwright in 1785 when he also built an automatic loom able to match the abundant yarn from Arkwright machines, obtaining a thin, strong thread that was not broken.
See
St. Gallen
textle industry