Ideas About Technology
The spinning jenny, invented in 1764, was a machine that used a quantity of spinning wheels; nevertheless, it produced low quality thread. The water frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1767, produced a greater high quality thread than the spinning jenny. The spinning mule, patented in 1779 by Samuel Crompton, produced a high quality thread. An improved sailing ship, the nau or carrack, enabled the Age of Exploration with the European colonization of the Americas, epitomized by Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. Pioneers like Vasco da Gama, Cabral, Magellan and Christopher Columbus explored the world seeking new commerce routes for their…