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.

Surviving mill and factory buildings have been redeveloped into housing.

After the war, the Bournville factory was redeveloped and mass production began in earnest.

The outskirts of the town contain a DIY shop a former sheepskin and slipper factory site, once owned by Morlands, which is slowly being redeveloped.

The factory was demolished and the site rehabilitated and redeveloped.

The New Street factory was scheduled to be redeveloped with work planned to start during 2010, however this fell through after the new site owners Ashwell Property Group entered administration in December 2009.

Former factory, redeveloped for offices

The original Derby Airport site at Burnaston has since been redeveloped into a Toyota car factory.

The factory closed in 2003, and since demolition in 2006, has been redeveloped as housing and a light industrial estate.

Production ceased in 2002 and the factory has now been redeveloped as luxury apartments.

The area of the actual factory site has been redeveloped since 2000 into townhomes and condominium apartments.

In 1997, the old factory site was redeveloped as a retail commercial center.

In recent years, many previous industrial and commercial sites have been redeveloped as housing, including sites along the Yarra River and the Denton Mills hat factory.

A second commercial area has grown along Nepean Highway ; this may expand as the former Nylex factory site between Nepean Highway and Warrigal Highway is redeveloped into a bulky goods retail precinct.

Located on the redeveloped site of the Bird's Custard factory in the industrial district of Digbeth, it is home to a community of businesses, primarily with an artistic and media slant, but also including entertainment venues and regional offices of national charitable organisations.

The aerodrome has been redeveloped as an industrial site where Caterpillar Inc. now has a large factory.

The factory has now been fully demolished and its site redeveloped as shops, housing and a library.

The factory closed down in 1991 and the mill has been demolished and the site redeveloped as housing.

Currently the site of the old factory premises is being redeveloped by the Community Council to house a large food production facility.

The car factory is known today as Plant Oxford and is now owned by BMW and has been extensively redeveloped.

The valley between Little Dunmow and Felsted was the location for the only sugar beet factory in Essex, which has been redeveloped for housing in a community called Flitch Green.

Local employment opportunities changed significantly in the latter quarter of the 20th century owing to the loss not only of the railway depots but also of a major electrical manufacturing facility ( Hotpoint ), which factory site has been redeveloped as a housing estate.

By 2007, 65 hectares of the former Ince Power Station site near the Mersey had been redeveloped as part of a large bottle production factory owned by Quinn Glass, containing two glass melting furnaces and 13 bottle production lines.

The of land which has been freed up following the demolition of more than half of the former MG Rover factory floorspace ( now owned by SAIC ) has been allocated for a new town centre for the once bustling and soon to be redeveloped area.

The last of these to close, about 2004, was the Ingham chicken-processing factory, the site of which is currently being redeveloped as the Yale residential estate which will begin land sales in early 2006.