Why Britain?: What were the conditions made the Industrial Revolution possible? Natural resources: fossil fuels and iron Transportation: Rivers and canals Population: labor force Capital (money): Strong system of banking, credit and insurance Problem Solution How do you produce John Kay Inventor: more cloth for clothing? Invention: The flying shuttle The shuttle helped weavers move the thread across the loom Purpose: quickly in order to produce twice as much cloth. How do you meet the Inventor: James Hargreaves demand for more Invention: The spinning thread? Purpose: A spinner could spin multiple threads at once increasing the production of thread six-fold. Improvements were made to increase the number of spindles up to 100. How do you further Inventor: Richard Arkwright increase production of Invention: The water frame thread? Purpose: The new spinning machine was developed to work by a water wheel. How do you further Inventor: Edmund Cartwright increase production of The loom Invention: Purpose: The power loom was faster and larger than home looms and therefore could produce more fabric. What was the social impact of these inventions? Spinners and weavers feared these new inventions because they would put them out of job and attempted to destroy these inventions. Unable to compete with machines, people transitioned from their homes—the domestic system—to new working environments—the factory system. Factories that were driven by the capacity of the machines and around a schedule.
Why Britain?: What were the conditions made the Industrial Revolution possible? Natural resources: fossil fuels and iron Transportation: Rivers and canals Population: labor force Capital (money): Strong system of banking, credit and insurance Problem Solution How do you produce more cloth for clothing? Inventor: John Kay Invention: The flying shuttle Purpose: The shuttle helped weavers move the thread across the loom quickly in order to produce twice as much cloth. How do you meet the demand for more thread? Inventor: James Hargreaves Invention: The spinning Purpose: A spinner could spin multiple threads at once increasing the production of thread six-fold. Improvements were made to increase the number of spindles up to 100. How do you further increase production of thread? Inventor: Richard Arkwright Invention: The water frame Purpose: The new spinning machine was developed to work by a water wheel. How do you further increase production of Inventor: Edmund Cartwright Invention: The loom Purpose: The power loom was faster and larger than home looms and therefore could produce more fabric. What was the social impact of these inventions? Spinners and weavers feared these new inventions because they would put them out of job and attempted to destroy these inventions. Unable to compete with machines, people transitioned from their homes—the domestic system—to new working environments—the factory system. Factories that were driven by the capacity of the machines and around a schedule.
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