In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

The `` leapfrog '' was a phenomenon of the railroad and the steam turbine, and the time when the belts of residence surrounding the old factory area were not yet blighted.

This factory was so successful it remained in use until the 1960s, with the workshop still visible at HM Dockyard in Portsmouth, and still containing some of the original machinery.

One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

His first job in the United States was as a factory worker in a bobbin factory.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Ethernet had become essentially universal by 1990, and it was time to build Ethernet into Macs direct from the factory.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

The first actual glue factory was founded in Holland in the early 18th century.

A former cloth warehouse was converted into a small theatre in 1974, and the alternative culture center KIFF ( Culture in the fodder factory ) was established in a former animal fodder factory.

During the next century Aegina was one of the three principal states trading at the emporium of Naucratis, and it was the only state of European Greece that had a share in this factory.

After the car factory decline, it was used by the M. O. D.

A factory was built near Bound Brook, New Jersey in 1929.

A new factory opened in Tyseley, Birmingham, England around 1928 and was subsequently demolished in 1998.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

As more detailed knowledge of biology and biochemistry developed, the colloidal theory was replaced by the macromolecular theory, which explains an enzyme as a collection of identical huge molecules that act as very tiny machines, freely moving about between the water molecules of the solution and individually operating on the substrate, no more mysterious than a factory full of machinery.

A more speculative, more complex " chip factory " was specified to produce the computer and electronic systems, but the designers also said that it might prove practical to ship the chips from Earth as if they were " vitamins.

In 1994, Ford opened a new factory at Banbury Road in Bloxham.

In 1941 Armand opened a new factory in Valcourt.

In 1819, F. L. Cailler opened the first Swiss chocolate factory.

Kazakhstan franchising began with the emergence of a " Coca-Cola " factory, opened to sublicense a Turkish licensor of the same brand.

A landmark in Greenwich Village ’ s cultural landscape, it was built as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theatre they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened on March 24, 1924, with the play The Man Who Ate the Popomack.

Heinz opened a pickle factory in Holland, Michigan, in 1897, and it is the largest such facility in the world.

After opening its first overseas office in London in 1896, the company opened its first UK factory in Peckham, south London in 1905.

Production was started at a former munitions factory at Standish near Wigan in 1946 before the new factory at Kitt Green Wigan opened in 1959.

From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed, Hatfield was associated with aircraft design and manufacture, which employed more people than any other industry.

In 1743, a factory was opened in Northampton with fifty spindles on each of five of Paul and Wyatt's machines.

French soldiers inspecting Krupp ’ s factory in Essen were cornered by workers in a garage, opened fire with a machine gun, and killed thirteen.

* 1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

A fish-canning factory opened in 1909 but failed due to an unusual shortage of fish that year.

The potential for expansion was revealed when Minister of Transport Leslie Goonewardena opened an extension of the Coastal Line from Puttalam to Aruvakalu in 1974, to service the cement factory there.

Recently a new car factory has been opened by GM Opel in Gliwice.

Whitehead opened a new factory near Portland Harbour, England in 1890, which continued making torpedoes until the end of the Second World War.

Whitehead also opened a factory at St Tropez in 1890 which exported torpedoes to Brazil, Holland, Turkey and Greece.

In addition to works in North America, the Singer Corporation also had the honour of creating the largest clock face in the world, the Singer's clock at its Clydebank, Scotland factory which opened in 1885 and closed in 1980.

The first factory in the Bulgarian lands opened in Sliven in 1834 and the first railway system started running ( between Rousse and Varna ) in 1865.

The Company opened a factory in Bantam on the first voyage and imports of pepper from Java were an important part of the Company's trade for twenty years.

The first cotton mill opened in 1825, and 14 years later the first steam-powered factory in both Poland and Russia commenced operations.

It was the first pencil factory opened in the United States.

Later he opened a biscuit factory in Toulon.