Industrial Revolution
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è stato aggiornato: 15 gen 2021
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James Watt improves the steam engine.About 1764 James Hargreaves conceives the idea for a yarn-spinning machine called the spinning jennyArkwright develops mills in which the whole process of yarn manufacture is carried on by one machine.Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule, a cross between machines invented by Arkwright and Hargreaves.Edmund Cartwright invents a crude power loom, first patented in 1785.Cartwright sets up a weaving and spinning factory in Doncaster, Yorkshire, EnglandEli Whitney invents the cotton gin, a machine for cleaning cotton of its seedsTwo Englishmen, William and John Cockerill, bring the Industrial Revolution to Belgium by developing machine shops at Liège.Cyrus McCormick invents several machines used to mechanize farming.The steam engine is invented.The Government passed a Factory Act to improve conditions for children working in factoriesSamuel Morse invents the telegraph.Elias Howe invents the sewing machine.Belgium will become the first country in continental Europe to be transformed economicallyPeriodi
Industrial RevolutionSocial opposition to industrialization begins to arise.
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