On Thursday (May 5th) we took a trip to Slater Mill in Pawtucket, "the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution". The visit gave us a great walkthrough of historic industrial machinery and processes used in the production of cotton thread. One machine that I personally found interestingly compelling and relatable to my project was the "bailer".
Picked cotton is initially separated from its seeds using a cotton gin:
The bailer is used to compress the freshly processed cotton fibers into shippable, 10-ton bails. Using a mold-like system, the most cotton physically possible is able to be shipped in the most compact and transportable form.
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