WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Industries that Were Affected by the Industrial Revolution? The textile industry stands out as one of the very first industries that felt the impact of the industrial revolution. Around 1760, there were only two or three factories in Manchester, but after a few decades, this number had grown exponentially.

Detailed explanation-2: -1764 Water frame invented by Richard Arkwright: the first powered textile machine. 1769 Arkwright patented the water frame.

Detailed explanation-3: -The textile industry was the first to use modern production methods, and textiles became the dominant industry in terms of employment, value of output, and capital invested.

Detailed explanation-4: -India’s contemporary textile revolution did not begin until the construction of Fort Gloster near Calcutta at the beginning of the nineteenth century. However, the cotton textile business began in Bombay in the 1850s. A Parsi cotton merchant interested in both domestic and international trade founded it in 1854.

Detailed explanation-5: -Before the Industrial Revolution, textiles were made by hand in the “cottage industry”, where materials would be brought to homes and picked up when the textiles were finished. This allowed for workers to decide their own schedules and was largely unproductive.