machinery in the textile industry. john kay’s flying shuttle, 1733 could weave wider cloth could...
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JOHN KAY’S FLYING SHUTTLE, 1733
• Could weave wider cloth• Could weave faster so greater production• More expensive• Needs a larger space• Threatened weavers jobs
JAMES HARGREAVES SPINNING JENNY, 1765
• Could spin many threads at once• Produced quite coarse/rough yarn• Threat to traditional jobs
RICHARD ARKWRIGHT’S WATER FRAME, 1769
• Spun stronger yarn but quite coarse/rough• Operated by water power so need to be in a
factory• Threatened traditional jobs
SAMUEL CROMPTON’S SPINNING MULE
• Made finer cloth for more expensive cloth• Could produce much more as a large-scale
machine• Threat to traditional jobs