WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
New machinery first helped the ____ industry.
A
Stone
B
Electric
C
Textile
D
Gasoline
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1764 Water frame invented by Richard Arkwright: the first powered textile machine. 1769 Arkwright patented the water frame. 1770 Hargreaves patented the Spinning Jenny. 1773 The first all-cotton textiles were produced in factories.

Detailed explanation-2: -These new inventions-the flying shuttle, spinning jenny, water frame, spinning mule, power loom, cotton gin, Jacquard loom, and synthetic dyes-improved upon existing methods and technologies to make textile production easier, faster, and better suited to the demands of consumers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Technological advances in weaving, dyeing, finishing and printing have made fabric manufacturing more efficient, environmentally friendly and lower-cost than ever before.

Detailed explanation-4: -The flying shuttle was one of the first inventions to change the textile industry, as a result of the industrial revolution. It was invented in May of 1733, by a man named John Kay, an engineer, machinist, and son of a wool manufacturer.

Detailed explanation-5: -The industrial revolution was one of the main factors in transforming the textile industry. It created new machines, which allowed for many more things to be done in a shorter time with fewer workers, so cloth production increased rapidly.

Detailed explanation-6: -Invented by James Hargreaves in 1764, the spinning jenny was one of the innovations that started the revolution. In a period loosely dated from the 1770s to the 1820s, Britain experienced an accelerated process of economic change that transformed a largely agrarian economy into the world’s first industrial economy.

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