In the 1700's, England was the world's leading colonial power. England's colonies also provided a market for manufactured products. The manufacture and export of various cloths were vital to the English economy in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Before the Industrial Revolution, textiles were ...

John Kay John Kay was born about the year of 1704. He was the twelfth child born to a farmer. He later took charge of his father's woolen mill. He made advancements to a lot of machinery. What Kay did was make handloom weaving dramatically faster, and easier. He called ...

Industrialization changed the roles of women and children in America society in the mid 1800's. The roles of women and children changed in terms of the type of work they did, the working conditions, they endured, and their role in labor reform movement. Before the Industrial Revolution the ro...