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... textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller spinning ; but it did not come into immediate use . In 1738 , Kay of Bury made an important contrivance known as the fly - shuttle which enabled one man to do the work of two . At ...
... textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller spinning ; but it did not come into immediate use . In 1738 , Kay of Bury made an important contrivance known as the fly - shuttle which enabled one man to do the work of two . At ...
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... textiles , and bought his food stuffs . Thus the progress of industrial society has been marked by division of labour and separation of industry . At first the workman owned his own tools , and bought raw materials for his own use ...
... textiles , and bought his food stuffs . Thus the progress of industrial society has been marked by division of labour and separation of industry . At first the workman owned his own tools , and bought raw materials for his own use ...
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... Textile Industry . The revolution in the methods of production is perhaps best illustrated by the Textile Trade . This is one of the most important of all human industries , because it supplies one of the commodi- ties necessary for the ...
... Textile Industry . The revolution in the methods of production is perhaps best illustrated by the Textile Trade . This is one of the most important of all human industries , because it supplies one of the commodi- ties necessary for the ...
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... textile trade , and had never interested himself in machine construction until he invented the power loom . " Cartwright's own account of the causes which led him to take an interest in invention , and the plans he followed in working ...
... textile trade , and had never interested himself in machine construction until he invented the power loom . " Cartwright's own account of the causes which led him to take an interest in invention , and the plans he followed in working ...
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... textile workers of Lancashire could in the eighteenth century . Bell's in- vention of cylinder printing in 1783 enabled a man and a boy to turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to ...
... textile workers of Lancashire could in the eighteenth century . Bell's in- vention of cylinder printing in 1783 enabled a man and a boy to turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing Co-operative combination compete competition cotton Democracy disease economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom problem production profit progress railway rapidly raw materials reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool