Industries and Technological Changes

• Textiles

Putting out system.

• James Kay’s Flying Shuttle, 1733

• James Hargreaves’ Spinning Jenny, 1765

• 16 spindles; soon to become 120 per machine

• Richard Arkwright’s Water Frame, 1769

• Edmund Cartwright’s Power Loom, 1787

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