Discuss the most important innovations which led to the mechanization of cloth production in the Industrial Age.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but students should be able to express an understanding of the flying shuttle, which made cloth easier to produce, the spinning jenny, which more than octupled the capacity for thread production, Arkwright's water frame, which improved upon the spinning jenny and made use of hydraulic power, the spinning mule, which was a synthesis of the best elements of the spinning jenny and the water frame, and allowed for the production of varying qualities of cloth, and finally the production of Cartwright's power loom, which made the mechanization of cloth production complete.
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