A New Study on Traditional View on Textile Machinery Invention During the Period of British Industrial Revolution

Many scholars on history,technology history and textile history in China and foreign countries have many mistakes and misunderstandings of textile machinery invention. Thus,some fallacies spread repeatedly. Based on investigation and identification of literatures,pictures and videos related to flying shuttle,spinning Jenny,the water spinning frame and water loom,this study holds that the flying shuttle has two-in-one characteristics of weft insertion and beating-up and explains its operating process in detail. Spinning Jenny is the degraded product of spinning technology,but it is a revolution in the industrial history. Although it improved spinning speed,it failed to boost spinning quality. Thus,it was a flash in the pan finally. The image information of the water spinning frame and the image information of water loom in 1785 contradict with their relevant statements. This paper tries to systematically organize these texts and image information so as to really display the technological history.