Industries: Cloth, coal, iron and metal.

.The main industries in England were the cloth, the coal and iron; and the metal industry. All of them were facing difficulties regarding the processes employed for production so it was essential to improve technology at that time. As people strated to buy more goods,  textile traders began to look for faster and cheaper ways of producing clothes

The greatest innovation for the difficulties in  cloth production was the invention of a the spinning wheel. In 1764, the Spinning Jenny was invented by James Hargreaves, which he patented in 1770. It was the first practical spinning frame with multiple spindles. The jenny worked by first clamping down on the fibres, and then by drawing them out, followed by twisting.

  In the other two great English industries, coal and iron, there was an equal need for technological improvement. Because of the rise of industrialization, there was an incredible demand for coal and iron. People used to find iron and coal and they deliberately uprooted them, but then the task turn almost impossible since they had to go deeper. The invention that solved this problem was the steam pump developed by Savery and Newcomen, which was then perfected in 1712.

  Finally, the most vital of English industries was the metal trade. Up to that moment, iron had always been smelted by charcoal, but all the forests were being destroyed.  The metal industry seemed to be in a period of crisis and many people were trying to discover new ways of smelting coal. Fortunately, the Darbys of Coalbrookdale discovered that they could use coke for smelting instead of charcoal.Thanks to this process, England started to lead the world in the industrial revolution.

 To conclude, the first part of the eighteenth century was a period in which people began to realize that there was a need for a change so as to improve the production in the different industries. Several inventors worked really hard to develop new methods and machines that would optimize and facilitate the production. These inventions had a profound effect on England’s invention and they marked the process of industrialization which had already begun and turned England into the leading industrial nation of the period.