Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Tomioka Silk Mill (1872)
1872 — The Meiji government opens a model silk-reeling mill designed by the French engineer Paul Brunat, with French machines and young women recruited from samurai and farming families to learn and spread the technique.
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- Industrialisation of Meiji Japan (chapter 10 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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- Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
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