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The factory system developed in the late eighteenth century, chiefly due to the advances being made in the textile industry. With inventions such as the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and many others, the making of cloth became much faster, and could be done on a much wider scale .
A little more than a year after the first sewing-machine patent was granted, Mr. BEAN, of New-York, obtained a patent for using the common sewing-needle with machinery. This invention, employed small geared wheels to corrugate the cloth, and through the folds true produced it thrust a long needle.