Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
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è stato aggiornato: 10 nov 2017
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John Kay invented the flying shuttleLewis Paul settled in Birmingham and with John Wyatt, they patented the Roller Spinning machine and the flyer-and-bobbin systemPaul and Wyatt opened a mill in Birmingham which used their new rolling machine powered by donkeyA factory opened in Northampton, which used fifty spindles turned on five of Paul and Wyatt's machinesLewis Paul invented the hand driven carding machinePaul and Wyatt, based in Birmingham, improved their roller spinning machine and took out a second patentThe Beverly Cotton Manufactory was the first mill to use horses to power a millThe Cromford Mill was startedBrunswick Mill was created in Ancoats, ManchesterBrunswick Mill had 276 carding machines, 77,000 mule spindles, 20 drawing frames, fifty slubbing frames and eighty one roving framesthe equipment for Beverly Cotton Manufactory was complete, consisting of a spinning jenny, a carding machine, and warping machineSamuel Slater took his skills in designing and constructing factories to New England, and he was soon engaged in reproducing the textile mills that helped America with its own industrial revolutionEli Whitney invented and patented the cotton gin, which sped up the processing of raw cotton by over 50 timesRichard Roberts patented the first self-acting muleRichard Roberts manufactured the first loom with a cast-iron frameJames Bullough and William Kenworthy made the Lancashire LoomHorrocks & Nuttall made a 160 horsepower double engineWilliam Fairbairn addressed the problem of line-shafting, and replaced the wooden turning shafts that drove the machines at Quarry Bank Mill at 50rpm to wrought iron shafting working at 250 rpm
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