
Chapter 5: The Textile Industry
The Industrial Revolutions
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The History of Cotton Spinning by Water Mill
In 1768, Hargreite took the clockmaker back to his hometown of Preston. There they invented a new spinning frame using rollers that would effectively automate much of this spinning process. A few years later he teamed up with two investors, from the non-conformist religious community. The Cromford mills would become one of the birth sites of the industrial revolutions.
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