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Industrial Revoltion, Textiles.

By Mizza124
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    The invention of new and larger spinning and weaving machines shits textile industry into factories.

  • Kay patented the Flying Shuttle

  • Cotton mills were opened at Birmingham and Northampton.

  • Lancashire mill owners imported East India yarns to improve the quality of textiles.

  • An angry mob of weavers wrecked Kay's house.

  • Hargreaves designed the Spinning Jenny.

  • Arkwright designed the Water Frame.

  • An angry mob destroyed Arkwright's mill at Chorely.

  • Arkwright patented the Water Frame.

  • Hargreaves patented the Spinning Jenny.

  • Arkwright opened his mill at Cromford.

  • The first all-cotton textiles were produced.

  • Crompton Designed the Spinning Mule.

  • Arkwright's mill at Masson was opened.

  • Cartwright patented the power loom.

  • The Boulton and Watt steam engine is first used in a textiles factory.

  • Cotton goods production was 10 times more than in 1770

  • Samuel Slater brought textile machinery design to the US.

  • Arkwright's steam powered factory was built in Nottingham.

  • Grimshaw's factory in Manchester was destroyed by an angry mob of weavers and spinners.

  • Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin.

  • Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a device using punched card to weave complex designs.

  • English textile mills were forced to close down as supplies of cotton from the US South ran short.

  • Horrocks invented the speed batton.

  • Singer Sewing Machine was invented.

  • India's first cotton mill was built.