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The Industrial Revolution

Written by Davide A., 4H Pictures research by Alice Z., 4H It all started with the grown of the population; before this, the population used to craft every type of things by themselves in their own homes, but with this grow the amount of material needed for live well increase and the families needed to create tons of cloth to satisfy more people. This lead the population to sell more cloth outside their homes. This phenomenon caused the creation of the “domestic system”. This system wasn’t perfect though, it was pretty slow and so the cloth amount that was produced wasn’t enough for satisfy the growing population. The demand of this product was so big that three engineers, John Kay, James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright designed machines that could create a great amount of cloth in a minor time. These machines could be really helpful for the families, however they were too big for letting them stay in the homes; as a results, factories were built to host these machines. The ma

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