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    common inventions that formed this era were the spinning jenny‚ flying shuttle‚ and steam engine. They supported the economy and the manufactured goods.The spinning jenny was created by James Hargreaves. It was a machine that had 8 spindles and could spin thread from an arrangement of rounds to create yarn. By turning a solitary wheel‚ the operator spun 8 threads at once.This generally shows how it expanded the thread to 80 (Abraham‚ pg 4). The spinning Jenny increase the produced supply and demand. Besides

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    inventions helped contribute towards the Industrial Revolution‚ such as the Cotton Gin‚ the Spinning Jenny and the Flying Shuttle (DOC.6). John Kay invented the flying shuttle in 1733‚ it was a boat shaped piece of wood with string attached and it swayed back and forth on wheels. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1794‚ the machine was designed to pull the cotton fibers from the cotton seed. The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764‚ this machine used eight to sixteen spindles

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    15 INVENTIONS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD SUBMITTED BY: DIWATA‚ MICHAEL PAULO E. CH21FA1- BS CHE CHEM002-ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SUBMITTED TO: ENGR. EFREN CHAVEZ LIGHTNING ROD American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin was particularly interested in electricity and set up a small laboratory in his house to investigate its properties. His interest soon switched from electricity to lightning after he noticed the similarities between the two. One stormy night‚ he conducted a life-threatening

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    The French Revolution Enlightenment ideals reflected in the French Revolution by creating Enlightenment canon of basic text‚ by selecting certain authors and identifying them with the Enlightenment in order to legitimize their republican political agenda. Enlightenment ideals were also reflected by Edmund Burke in which was one of the first to suggest that the philosopher of the French Enlightenment were somehow responsible for the French Revolution‚ and his argument was taken up‚ and elaborated

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    1.0 Introduction Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750s to 1850s. It was first started in Great Britain particularly in England then spread to Western Europe‚ japan and northern America as well as rest of the world. This industrial revolution was a process where machines take over the functions of hand tools‚ thus‚ the production increase. Many new machines were invented by the inventors in this period‚ for example‚ James watt invented the steam engine in 1755 to pump water out of mines.

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    The new inventions of the spinning jenny and textile mill sparked mass production in jobs and clothing. After the concept of the mills started in England‚ Japan later wanted to start in that act. The owners of those factories would hire both genders‚ but preferred young females to work with the spinning jennys while the men worked in the cotton mills. The days were long and the pay was short for women at that time in

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    lives were spent running spinning wheels and turning cotton into threads to make fabric. People were relieved of this misery by the invention of a machine by James Hargreaves called spinning jenny that enabled workers to individually produce numerous spools of threads simultaneously. The machines that were built could be replicated to make factories bigger and bigger. The industrial revolution didn’t just invent the spinning machine‚ it invented the modern factory. The spinning machine turned England

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    There were many reasons the Industrial Revolution began in England. There were the necessary resources in place‚ motivation was high for the workers‚ and different innovations helped increase production speed in factories. Without these points the Industrial revolution never would have started in England. England had an abundance of natural resources that could be used in factories. In Document 1 it shows that England had materials such as; wool‚ cotton‚ coal‚ lead and so forth. Not only did

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    The statement is true to the extent that it is somewhat false and true. This is due to the fact that every major positive impact always brings in many negative impacts with it that even sometimes affects other major impacts of the Industrial Revolution. The impacts of the Industrial Revolution changed the world vastly and improved civilization with all the negative effects it also produced. One of the main impacts of the Industrial Revolution is Commerce and Trade. It allowed countries to have free

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    Was the Industrial Revolution good for Europe? Yes the Industrial Revolution was good for Europe. It helped improve Europe in many ways. It started Europe it was the beginning of Europe. It changed how people lived and worked. Lots of people benefited from the industrial Revolution in many ways. The people that benefited from the Industrial Revolution were the middle class. The middle class certainly were the “Big Winners” as a result of the French Revolution the 3rd estate were the business owners

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