The Bridewell museum in Norwich is a microcosm of industrialisation. In my recent visit to this museum I discovered that it has exhibits which are representative of all the prototypical elements of industrialisation: Machines, shopkeepers, and most important of all the avid consumer who can exchange money earned for manufactured goods. The consumer showcased at the museum was a country parson who made special trips into Norwich to buy, carefully monitoring his expenditure at the same time. As for machines, the working Jacquard loom and a electromechanical traffic light controller represented the antecedents of computerisation.
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