Lesson 65: The Growth of Industry

      The Industrial Revolution was a time of advancement in technology  all around the world.
The British were advancing in industry during the eighteenth century but refused to share its production with anyone else.
They did not allow anyone to export or even describe their machinery.

 In 1789 the secrets were finally revealed when Samuel Slater left Britain in disguise with plans for the machine that could spin cotton thread.
 Because it took so much time to separate cotton fibers from seed , Eli Whitney invented the "cotton gin" which could separate them 50 times fast than doing it by hand.

Because of these inventions, more land would be cleared to plant cotton so it could be processed and sold.
 These are only a few of the inventions that began the Industrial Revolution in America.