The sequence of development of the flying shuttle, spinning jenny, and power loom demonstrates that
A) innovations in technology lead to bottlenecks which required further innovations to solve.
B) improvements in industrial technology were scattered and random.
C) no one nation could create all the machinery needed for a single industry.
D) water power was not sufficient to support early industrial production.
E) radical breakthroughs were more important that incremental changes in early industrialization.
Answer: A
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