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Flying Shuttle
Handloom weaving was an awkwardly slow process for centuries. Using the flying shuttle, no matter what the width of the fabric at a grater speed than normal. This is because paddles were used to bat the shuttle side to side when the weaver pulled a cord, and it was mounted on wheels in a track. The flying shuttle was created by John Kay. -
The Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny was the first machine to make it possible to spin more than one ball of yarn or thread, improving the spinning wheel. The spinning jenny used eight spindles instead of only one found on a spinning wheel. These both made the threads and yarns used by weavers in their looms. The spinning jenny was invented and improved by James Hargreaves. -
Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin was created by Eli Whitney, in late May of 1793. The cotton gin was a hand-cranked device that used a wired-toothed cylinder that can remove cotton seeds. The teeth could remove the seeds while the cotton was combed and cleaned. Before the cotton gin, the hand labor required served as a brake on its profitability and production. Before the cotton gin was invented, only 138,000 pounds of cotton was being exported. A year after it was invented, 1.6 million pounds were exported. -
The Sewing Machine
The sewing machine is said to be invented by Barthélemy Thimonnier. Before the sewing machine was invented, people believed the needle was the only way to sew. The sewing maching is a device equipped with needles threraded at an end which puncture the fabric periodically as the fabric is moved along it, and each stich is created as the thread loops onto itself, sewing two fabrics together.
