HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first English factory was set up on the banks of the river Hugli in Bengal 1651. The East India Company convinced merchants and traders to come and settle near the factory. By 1696, the Company began building a fort around the Hugli settlement.
Detailed explanation-2: -By January 1613, the first East India Company factory had come up at Surat.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lombe’s Mill, viewed across the River Derwent, 18th century., England from 1718-21, was the first successful powered continuous production unit in the world, and the model for the factory concept later developed by Richard Arkwright and others in the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -After establishing themselves on the West Coast of India, the British turned their attention to the East Coast. They started with establishing their first factory at Masulipatnam in 1611 C.E.
Detailed explanation-5: -They established their first factory at Surat in 1668, and in 1669, they built another factory at Masaulipatam.