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Industrial Revolution
-1764 James Hargreaves got the idea for a yarn-spinning machine called the spinning jenny -
Industrial Revolution
- Richard Arkwright is the first to use watt's steam engine to power textile machinery
- developed mills in which the process of yarn manufacture is done by one machine -Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
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Industrial Revolution
- Edmund Cartwright invents a crude power loom
- 1st wool-combing machine
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Industrial Revolution
- Samuel Slater established a cotton mill
- first successful cotton mill in U.S
- Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin (a machine used for cleaning cotton of its seeds)
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Industrial Revolution
- William and John Cockerill bring the industrial revolution to Belgium
- Belgium was the first country in europe to transform economically
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Industrial Revolution
- In the U.S. Cyrus McCormick invents several machines used to mechanize farming
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Industrial Revolution
- Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
- electricity starts to power all types of machinery