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Key individuals who impacted the Industrial Revoluion
Question | Answer |
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What did John Kay invent? | The Flying Shuttle. |
In which year did John Kay invent the Flying Shuttle? | 1733. |
What did the Flying Shuttle do? | Speeded up the weaving operation because it co pass through the warp threads faster and over a greater width of cloth. This meant more cloth could be produced. Also, it didn't need two to operate it unlike before. |
What did James Hargreaves invent? | The Spinning Jenny. |
In which year did John Kay invent the Spinning Jenny? | 1764. |
What did Lewis Paul invent with the help of John Wyatt? | A spinning machine. |
When did Lewis Paul and John Wyatt invent the spinning machine? | 1732. |
What did the spinning machine do? | The idea for it was to draw the fibres through sets of rollers turning at different speeds. |
Who was Richard Arkwright? | An inventor, entrepreneur with a capital of £200,00. Spent a lot of money investing the design and manufacture of new machines that were not human powered. |
What did Samuel Crompton invent? | The 'Mule'. |
In which year did Samuel invent the Mule? | 1779. |
What did the Mule do? | Well it expanded on what the Spinning Jenny by James Hargreaves could do. As a child he used the Spinning Jenny and he found a lot of faults that needed sorting. With the Mule he fixed those things. It produced lots of high quality yarn on a big scale. |
What did Edmund Cartwright invent? | The Power Loom |
In which year did Edmund Cartwright invent the Power Loom? | 1785. |
What did the Power Loom do? | Basically it was an attempt to make the whole weaving process automated. His first machine didn't manage this, but his second did. |