When the cotton gin mechanised processing in 1793, prices, already subsidised by slave labour, dropped dramatically.
But as new technology mechanised many processes, some domesticated animals were increasingly valued for their companionship, rather than practicality.
Time, then, to mechanise the process.
Once the Bletchley research section had brilliantly deduced how Fish encryption worked without ever seeing a Tunny machine, a team led by the Cambridge mathematician Max Newman realised that they needed to mechanise the process of trying out thousands of possibilities in order to crack the settings of the rotors.
To mechanise the process a multi-actuator mechanical end-effector was proposed in this investigation.
With spinning mechanised, the other processes involved in producing cotton could not keep up and also required mechanisation.
They date from medieval times to the industrial revolution, when the process was mechanised.
Once the cutting process was mechanised, peat could be cut from a greater depth, and at a faster rate, resulting in less ability for the moors to recover.
The extraction process was mechanised in the 1960s, with the introduction of machines that could cut and stack the peat turves, and mechanical loading of the turves into the trains was introduced in 1981.
More importantly, timber mills became "more productive" – they mechanised many of their processes, and required fewer workers.
