Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow ... a major exporter of them to the rest of the world. Several inventions made a significant difference in texture manufacturing ...

and determine if there was a pattern to these discoveries and inventions. They could also consider the positive and negative impacts on all aspects of society during the Industrial Revolution.

Vaucanson’s inventions prefigured the industrial revolution, during which mechanisation went from being a quirky curiosity to a force that reshaped the globe. We may be at an analogous turning ...