<P> Innovations in carding and spinning enabled by advances in cast iron technology resulted in the creation of larger spinning mules and water frames . The machinery was housed in water - powered mills on streams . The need for more power stimulated the production of steam - powered beam engines, and rotative mill engines transmitting the power to line shafts on each floor of the mill . Surplus power capacity encouraged the construction of more sophisticated power looms working in weaving sheds . The scale of production in the mill towns round Manchester created a need for a commercial structure; for a cotton exchange and warehousing . The technology was used in woollen and worsted mills in the West Riding of Yorkshire and elsewhere . </P> <P> The commencement of the Industrial Revolution is closely linked to a small number of innovations, made in the second half of the 18th century: </P> <Ul> <Li> Textiles--Cotton spinning using Richard Arkwright's water frame, James Hargreaves's Spinning Jenny, and Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule (a combination of the Spinning Jenny and the Water Frame). This was patented in 1769 and so came out of patent in 1783 . The end of the patent was rapidly followed by the erection of many cotton mills . Similar technology was subsequently applied to spinning worsted yarn for various textiles and flax for linen . </Li> <Li> Steam power--The improved steam engine invented by James Watt and patented in 1775 was initially mainly used for pumping out mines, but from the 1780s was applied to power machines . This enabled rapid development of efficient semi-automated factories on a previously unimaginable scale in places where waterpower was not available . </Li> <Li> Iron founding--In the Iron industry, coke was finally applied to all stages of iron smelting, replacing charcoal . This had been achieved much earlier for lead and copper as well as for producing pig iron in a blast furnace, but the second stage in the production of bar iron depended on the use of potting and stamping (for which a patent expired in 1786) or puddling (patented by Henry Cort in 1783 and 1784). </Li> </Ul> <Li> Textiles--Cotton spinning using Richard Arkwright's water frame, James Hargreaves's Spinning Jenny, and Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule (a combination of the Spinning Jenny and the Water Frame). This was patented in 1769 and so came out of patent in 1783 . The end of the patent was rapidly followed by the erection of many cotton mills . Similar technology was subsequently applied to spinning worsted yarn for various textiles and flax for linen . </Li>

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