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Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
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Alexander Ramm
⟶ Updated 10 Nov 2017 ⟶
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John Kay invented the flying shuttle
Lewis Paul settled in Birmingham and with John Wyatt, they patented the Roller Spinning machine and the flyer-and-bobbin system
Paul and Wyatt opened a mill in Birmingham which used their new rolling machine powered by donkey
A factory opened in Northampton, which used fifty spindles turned on five of Paul and Wyatt's machines
Lewis Paul invented the hand driven carding machine
Paul and Wyatt, based in Birmingham, improved their roller spinning machine and took out a second patent
The Beverly Cotton Manufactory was the first mill to use horses to power a mill
The Cromford Mill was started
Brunswick Mill was created in Ancoats, Manchester
Brunswick Mill had 276 carding machines, 77,000 mule spindles, 20 drawing frames, fifty slubbing frames and eighty one roving frames
the equipment for Beverly Cotton Manufactory was complete, consisting of a spinning jenny, a carding machine, and warping machine
Samuel 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 revolution
Eli Whitney invented and patented the cotton gin, which sped up the processing of raw cotton by over 50 times
Richard Roberts patented the first self-acting mule
Richard Roberts manufactured the first loom with a cast-iron frame
James Bullough and William Kenworthy made the Lancashire Loom
Horrocks & Nuttall made a 160 horsepower double engine
William 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
