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Inventions in the textiles industry
- 3: The Water Frame
- Date:
1769
- Inventor:
Richard
Arkwright of
Preston
- Power Source:
Water/Steam
- Advantages
- Strong Yarn
- Made Spinning
quicker than Weaving
- Strong Yarn
- Disadvantages
- Coarse Yarn
- Had to be put in a factory
- Coarse Yarn
- Date:
1769
- 1: The Flying Shuttle
- Date:
1733
- Inventor:
John Kay of
Bury
- Power Source:
Hand
- Advantages
- Sped up Weaving meaning
more cloth could be spun
- Only one weaver was needed
- Sped up Weaving meaning
more cloth could be spun
- Disadvantages
- Threat to some jobs
- More demand for
spun cotton
- Threat to some jobs
- Date:
1733
- 2: The Spinning Jenny
- Date:
1767
- Inventor:
James
Hargreaves of
Blackburn
- Power Source:
Hand
- Advantages
- Could be used in
peoples homes
- x8 more yarn
than a spinning
wheel
- Could be used in
peoples homes
- Disadvantages
- Threat to some jobs
- Fine but weak thread
- Threat to some jobs
- Date:
1767
- 5: The Power Loom
- Date:
1785
- Inventor:
Edmund
Cartwright (Vicar)
- Power Source:
Water/Steam
- Advantages
- Sped up weaving
- Good Quality Yarn
- Sped up weaving
- Disadvantages
- 1000's of weavers
lost their jobs
- By 1820
- By 1820
- Had to be put in a factory
- At first it was difficult
to make it work
- Improved by William
Horrocks and
Richard Roberts in
the 1800's
- Improved by William
Horrocks and
Richard Roberts in
the 1800's
- 1000's of weavers
lost their jobs
- Date:
1785
- 4: The Spinning Mule
- Date:
1779
- Inventor:
Samuel
Crompton of
Bolton
- Power Source:
Water/Steam
- Advantages
- 48 spindles could
be spun at once
- Finer yarn than The
Water Frame
- Stronger yarn than
the Spinning Jenny
- 48 spindles could
be spun at once
- Date:
1779
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