The Industrial Revolution was mainly based upon the cotton industry, subsequently, most of the inventions made during the hundred years after 1780 were mainly for manufacturing and producing cotton. The year was 1733, the demand for cotton cloth was high, but production was low. This crisis had to be solved or England's economy would be hindered. The answer came from a British weaver, John Kay, who invented and fashioned the flying shuttle, which cut weaving time in half. John Kay was a pioneer and his invention paved the way for numerous inventors. In 1764 James Hargreaves, a carpenter and hand-loom weaver invented the spinning jenny. This invention was capable of producing sixteen threads at once, these threads however, were not strong e

Conditions in factories and mines were dirty and dangerous. Workdays were often twelve to fourteen hours long. Workplaces were unventilated and machines were not safely fenced off. Poisons were used in manufacturing processes and deformation resulted from standing all day in weird positions at machines. In mines, lung diseases and eye infections were constant threats to life.

Because the Industrial Revolution increased the scale of production, the factory system came about. The factory system caused millions to migrate from the countryside and small towns into cities. First-generation urban workers had to learn how to discipline themselves to the factory whistle and survive in a slum. Businessmen and their wives had to learn how to manage a work force and achieve respectable prominence for themselves in the community.

Learning the discipline of the whistle was arduous. Most workers could not tell time nor did they even own clocks, yet they were still expected to begin and end work at the same time everyday.

The Industrial Revolution brought on more technology, wealth and power, but at what consequence? The people were living in filth, working unthinkable hours and being paid very little. The revolution shaped modern society to what it is today.

With the help of all of these cotton weaving inventions, mass production had begun, along w

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