John kay flying shuttle biography of rory

  • 1733 John Kay invents the flying shuttle[158] - the first step in the mechanisation of weaving.
  • This was the year John Kay invented the flying shuttle which revolutionised fabric weaving, turning it from a home industry into a factory one.
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    The Industrial Revolution 1750-1850

  • 1. The IndustrialThe Industrial RevolutionRevolution 1750-18501750-1850 World History BWorld History B Mrs. SlocumMrs. Slocum

  • 2. Population Density England, 1801 Population Density England, 1851

  • 3. 22 ENORMOUSENORMOUS ConsequencesConsequences (1)(1) Advance WeaponsAdvance Weapons (2)(2) More ColoniesMore Colonies

  • 4. Life BEFORE the Industrial RevolutionLife BEFORE the Industrial Revolution

  • 5. The Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial Revolution

  • 6. Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution Britain changed moreBritain changed more during this era than at anyduring this era than at any other time. People movedother time. People moved from thefrom the countrysidecountryside to the newto the new towns andtowns and cities.cities.

  • 7. I.R. Began in Britain…why?I.R. Began in Britain…why?  Population growth: increase in demand &Population growth: increase in demand & supply of workers.supply of workers.  Accessibility of t

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    INVENTORS

    MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT SERIES

    TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS. By
    General A.W. Greely, U.S.A.

    STATESMEN. By Noah Brooks.

    MEN OF BUSINESS. By W.O. Stoddard.

    INVENTORS. By P.G. Hubert, Jr.

    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

    MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT

    BY
    PHILIP G. HUBERT, Jr.

    NEW YORK
    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
    1896

    Copyright, 1893, by
    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

    Press of J.J. Little & Co.
    Astor Place, New York

    PREFACE

    This book, dealing with our great inventors, their origins, hopes, aims, principles, disappointments, trials, and triumphs, their daily life and personal character, presents just enough concerning their inventions to man the story intelligible. The history is often a painful one. When poor Goodyear, the uppfinnare of vulcanized rubber, was one day asked what he wanted to make of his boys, he is said to have replied: "Make them anything but inventors; mankind has nothing but cuffs and kicks for those who try to do it a service."

    Meanwhile, the value of the work done by grea

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