AP world history Inventors Flashcards
industrialization
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| 256444486 | john kay | 1733, a Brit who invented the fly shuttle. Made it possible for one person instead of two to operate a loom in textile manufacturing. It increased the output of woven material and therefore also the demand for yarn. | 0 | |
| 256444487 | James hargreaves | This was the man who created the spinning jenny which began the actual Industrial Revolution and the beginning of machines doing a man's work | 1 | |
| 256444488 | richard Arkwright | Invented the water frame | 2 | |
| 256444489 | samuel Crompton | 1779, a Brit who combined the best features of the spinning jenny with the water frame -> spinning mule/Crompton's mule. | 3 | |
| 256444490 | edward Cartwright | created the power loom, pwered by water, which increased the speed of weavers | 4 | |
| 256444491 | eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin | 5 | |
| 256444492 | joseph marie jacquard | French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) | 6 | |
| 256444493 | elias howe | United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867) | 7 |