Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . 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 n
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . 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. loom andcotton gin Fig. 155. Spinning Mule This huge frame is in principle much Hke Hargreavess, though now the long row of spindles — which the boy is touching — moves in and out instead of the spinner with the wool. The combed wool is held on the frame behind, to be pulled out and spun from the spindle tops a single machine watched by one workman can do as muchweaving in a day as two hundred weavers could do with old-fashioned hand looms. Other inventions followed. The timerequired for bleaching was reduced from several months to afew days by the use of acids, instead of relying principallyupon the sunlight. In 1792 Eli Whitney, in the United States,invented a power gin, which enabled one man to take theseeds out of over a thousand pounds of cotton a day instead offive or six pounds, which had been the limit for the hand worker. 584 Medieval and Modern Times The effect of these inventions in increasing the amount ofcloth manufactured was astonishing. In 1764 England im-ported on
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