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Bolton’s Cotton Industry

Bolton’s Cotton Industry. The I ndustrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution defined the widespread replacement of manual labour by new inventions of machinery. The flying shuttle 1733.

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Bolton’s Cotton Industry

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  1. Bolton’sCotton Industry The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution defined the widespread replacement of manual labour by new inventions of machinery.

  2. The flying shuttle1733 An improvement to looms that enabled weavers to weave faster. The original shuttle contained a bobbin on to which the weft (the crossways yarn) was wound. It was normally pushed from one side of the warp (the lengthways in a loom) to the other side by hand.

  3. The Spinning Jenny1764 The Jenny was a hand powered cotton spinning machine designed by James Hargreaves and was used to increase yarn and thread production during the industrial revolution.

  4. The Water frame1769 The water frame was given this name because it needed energy from a watermill to power it. It was therefore too large for cottage work and had to be placed in a factory. Women then had to work in factories whilst men stayed at home to produce weaving.

  5. The Spinning Mule 1779 The spinning mule was created by Samuel Crompton The mule was a hand held machine designed to spin cotton and other fibres. spinning mule gave the spinner great control over the weaving process, many different types of yarn could be produced.

  6. Crompton's Bolton home 10 Firwood Fold – Hall I’th’ Wood Samuel Crompton's Birth Home Samuel Crompton’s Family home http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10683201.Samuel_Crompton__Bolton_plans_260th_anniversary_celebrations/

  7. Samuel Crompton Samuel Crompton was a mill worker who had learnt to spin using a Spinning Jenny. He noted that one of the problems with the Spinning Jenny was that the thread was not strong enough and it kept breaking. In 1779, Crompton designed a new machine which he called the Spinning Mule. The Spinning Mule produced a very fine and even thread which was suitable to spin yarns. Crompton was poor and did not have enough money to develop his invention to patent it. Crompton was eventually tricked by atextile manufacturers into giving away the secret of his invention and was paid very little for divulging its secret. The Spinning Mule was quickly adopted by the textile industry and in March 1792, an angry crowd of spinners broke into Grimshaw's factory in Manchester and destroyed all the Spinning Mules installed there.

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