New technologies of the industrial revolutionMany different Inventions spurred the start of Industrial Revolution. Industrialisation would never have happened so rapidly if it wasn't for the rapid development of new ideas, methods and machinery. Some of those inventions include ...
These machines were bulky and expensive, so spinning and weaving could no longer be done at home. Wealthy textile merchants set up the machines in factories, and had the workers come to these places to do their work. At first the factories were set up near rivers and streams for water power, but other inventions later made this unnecessary.
Many small time textile merchants lost their jobs as factories of expensive machinery took over the textiles market. |