Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . muel Cromptonmade a happy com-bination of Har-greavess spinningjenny and Ark-wrights roller ma-chine, which wascalled the mule. Before the end of the eighteenth century,machines spinning two hundred threads simultaneously hadbeen invented, and as they were driven by power and requiredonly one or two watchers, the hand workers could by no meanscompete with them. Such inventions as these produced thefactory system of manufacture. 1 The hand spinner had bunch
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . muel Cromptonmade a happy com-bination of Har-greavess spinningjenny and Ark-wrights roller ma-chine, which wascalled the mule. Before the end of the eighteenth century,machines spinning two hundred threads simultaneously hadbeen invented, and as they were driven by power and requiredonly one or two watchers, the hand workers could by no meanscompete with them. Such inventions as these produced thefactory system of manufacture. 1 The hand spinner had bunches of wool, which had been combed into loosecurls, on the end of a stick, or distaff, and then pulled and twisted this with herfingers into a yam, which she wound on the spindle. By whirling the spindlearound she could help twist. The spinning wheel was invented to give a bettertwist to the spindle. It was used by our great-grandmothers, and became commonin the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By means of the spinning wheel itwas possible in some cases for one person to make two threads, one in one handand the other in the Fig. 154. The First Spinning Jenny The Industrial Revolution 583 The enormous output of thread and yarn on these new The power machines made the weavers dissatisfied with the clumsy oldhand loom, which had been little changed for many centuriesuntil the eighteenth century. At length, in 1784, Dr. Cart-wright, a clergyman of Kent, patented a new loom, which auto-matically threw the shuttle and shifted the weft. This machinewas steadily improved during the nineteenth century until now
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