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INNOVATIONS OF
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Section 2
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
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In the late 1700s the manufacturing of cloth
transformed Britain
 Population
boom = demand for clothing
 Population boom = agricultural revolution
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Global Connection
 The
consumption of cotton rose dramatically in Britain,
which came directly from plantations in South America
INVENTIONS
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By 1800, six major inventions had transformed the
cotton industry.
 1)
1733, John Kay made the flying shutter. (Boat piece
of wood to which yarn was attached.) Allowed the
weaver to work twice as fast.
 2.) 1764, James Hargreaves invented a new spinning
wheel. Called the spinning jenny. Allowed one spinner
to work six or eight threads at a time.
flying shutter
Spinning Jenny 
INVENTIONS
 3)
1769, Richard Arkwright’s water frame. Used
waterpower from streams to drive spinning wheels.
 4) 1779, Samuel Crompton combined features of the
spinning jenny and the water frame to make the
spinning mule. Made thread that was stronger & finer.
 5) 1785, Edmund Cartwright’s power loom. Run by
waterpower and sped up weaving.
 6) 1793, Eli Whitney made a cotton gin. Made it
possible for slaves to pick and clean ten times as much
cotton daily than ever before.
 Spinning Mule
Power Loom 
Water Frame
Cotton Gin
INVENTIONS
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The water frame and the spinning mule were too
large and expensive for people to use at home.
Families stopped working at home.
Textile merchants set up factories.
These were built near streams or waterfalls.
ENTREPRENEURS
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Power looms & spinning machines ran on
waterpower  factories had to be by water
sources.
 These
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places were often far away.
Found the answer in steam.
ENTREPRENEURS
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Entrepreneur: a person who organizes, manages,
and takes on the risks of a business.
1770’s, James Watt partnered with Matthew
Boulton to make a better steam engine.