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The Cotton Mills
(NOTE: This is not a relaxing mix, but one intended to spur contemplation.)
Cotton mills, and the mechanization of the spinning process, were instrumental in the growth of the machine tool industry, enabling the construction of larger cotton mills. The requirement for water helped stimulate the construction of the canal system, and the need for power the development of steam engines.
Much of the workforce consisted of children under the age of 12, with poor working conditions; but the jobs were attractive at nearly twice the wage to be earned on farms.
It is always said that children are the future, and many of those children gave us our own.
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This atmosphere sound has been released under the
Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.
Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.
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- Playground by acclivity of freesound.org +)
- Boat engine by By Domingus - www.freesound.org +)
- Heavenly Choirs by By Mariusz Jasionowicz - RareSound Production - www.raresound.co.uk +)
- Steam by freesound.org +)
- Binaural Hum Reverb by George Vlad of Alchemy Audio Design +)
- Drone Omen by George Vlad of Alchemy Audio Design +)
- Train by http://soundbible.com/911-Footsteps.html +)
- Huge slow metal fan by SoundDogs +)
+) Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License
Image from: Lewis Hine (1874-1940) Public Domain image: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration