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8 Cards in this Set
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Putting Out System
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System where entrepreneur purchases raw materials to be "put out" into homes of workers, where manufacture, mainly spinning and weaving, took place
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Agricultural Revolution
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Gradual changes in agricultural techniques which improved productivity
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Newcomen's engine
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Steam-driven pump introduced in 1709 that enabled water to be sucked through a pipe. Enabled coal production to increase
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James Watt
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Invented condensing steam engine in 1775
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Richard Arkwright
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Constructed first cotton factories in Britain in 1769 at Crom ford near Nottingham.
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Luddites
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Workers opposed to mechanized weaving who organised mchine breaking riots in the 1810's
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Eli Whitney
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American Inventro, pattented cotton gin in 1794
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Opening of the First modern Railway
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1830
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