Factory facts for kids

A factory in the Netherlands

A factory is a building where workers use machines to make things for sale. It usually means a building where companies use mass production to make different things. Many of the same thing are made in a short amount of time.

Factories during the industrial revolution had horrible working conditions.

Images for kids

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  Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany

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  Reconstructed historical factory in Žilina (Slovakia) for production of safety matches. Originally built in 1915 for the business firm Wittenberg and son.

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  Entrance to the Venetian Arsenal by Canaletto, 1732.

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  Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century).

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  Cromford mill as it is today.

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  Working day ends at Tampella factory in Tampere, Finland in 1909

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  Factory Automation with industrial robots for palletizing food products like bread and toast at a bakery in Germany.

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  Highland Park Ford plant, c. 1922

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  A factory worker in 1940s Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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  Zeche Ewald in Herten, exterior (2011)

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  Zeche Ewald in Herten, interior (2011)

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  Coldharbour Mill textile factory, built in 1799.

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  Adolph von Menzel: Moderne Cyklopen

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  New Lanark mill

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  Workers in the fuse factory, Woolwich Arsenal late 1800s

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  The assembly plant of the Bell Aircraft Corporation at Wheatfield, New York, United States, 1944

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  Interior of the Rouge Tool & Die works, 1944

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  Hyundai's Assembly line (about 2005)

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  Danisco Sweeteners factory in Kotka, Finland (2015)

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  First stages of Saturn V rockets being manufactured at the NASA Michoud rocket factory in the 1960s

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  Space station modules being manufactured in the Space Station Processing Facility

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  A ladle pouring molten steel into a Basic Oxygen Furnace for secondary steelmaking, inside a steel mill factory in Germany

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  Airplanes being manufactured at the Boeing Everett Factory assembly line

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In Spanish: Fábrica para niños