water frame
the improvment on the spining jenny
who is the inventor?
the inventions purpose, where did it occur, and when.
why is there a need for it?
It was the first powered, automatic, and continuous textile machine and enabled the move away from small home manufacturing towards factory production of textiles. The water frame was also the first machine that could spin cotton threads.
who does it work why is it important
It was the first powered, automatic, and continuous textile machine and enabled the move away from small home manufacturing towards factory production of textiles. The water frame was also the first machine that could spin cotton threads
Inventions
Due to legal patent problems, Richard Arkwright isn't legally credited to inventing the spinning frame (or water frame), he's still known for being the inventor. He is the one who finished it and used it, but he did not come up with the original idea. it was based on an invention by Thomas Highs, and the idea was sold to him by John Kay, a mechanic who helped Thomas Highs build early revisions of the frame. The spinning frame used many new mechanical inventions (such as draw rollers by Lewis Paul) and spun cotton into threads. It was too large to be operated by men, and many different methods were experimented with to power it, such as horse power. Eventually a water wheel was used and the invention was renamed the water frame. Richard is also known for his carding engine, an improvement from Lewis Pauls' original. The new carding engine could convert raw cotton buds into a continues string of cotton which could be easily spun into yarn. The water frame along and carding engine helped spark the mass production of textiles during the early revolution.
bib.
https://sites.google.com/a/imagineprep.com/theindustrialrevolution/inventors/richard-arkwright
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