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The cotton industry was the first and leading industry of Catalan industrialisation which led, by the mid-19th century, to Catalonia becoming the main industrial region of Spain. It is the one Mediterranean exception to the tendency for early industrialisation to be concentrated in northern Europe.
Can Batlló, or the old Joan Batlló Factory is a former industrial complex located close to the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, near the square known as Plaça Cerdà.It is composed of the facilities set up for the textile factory created in 1878 by Joan Batlló i Barrera.
The cotton industry played a significant role in the development of the American economy, with the production of cotton being the major source of income for slave owners in the southern United States prior to the Civil War, while the transport of said cotton to English and French mills and beyond became a mainstay of Northern shipping.
The Fontana Economic History of Europe. 4 (2). Collins/Fontana: 538– 616. ISBN 0006328415. Thomson, J.K.J. (2003). "Transferencia tecnológica en la industria algodonera catalana: de la indianas a la selfactina" [Technology transfer in the Catalan cotton industry: from chintz to self-acting mules]. Revista de Historia Industrial (in Spanish). 24.
Remains of the Tellers Bastion in 1855 showing the buildings of the former Bonaplata Factory to the right. The Bonaplata Factory (1832-1838) (also known as El Vapor lit. ' The Steam Engine ') was the first factory in Spain to successfully use steam engines (using them to drive mechanical textile machinery), the first foundry to manufacture and repair cast-iron machinery for sale to the textile ...
Over the last seven years or so, the ever more capitalized Catalan industry, much based in capital Barcelona, has driven into domestic co-production with other parts of Spain. One result: an ...
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The trade with the Americas also encouraged and fed the already growing industry of calico print production [12] and, much later, spinning and weaving of cotton cloth (the Royal Spinning Company was established in Barcelona in 1772 to spin American raw cotton. [13] The textile industry became the basis of industrialisation in Catalonia in the ...