Textile Mills are factories for making textiles (cloth), usually by weaving or knitting. In the US, they were a key part of the Industrial Revolution and often used the factory system.
Textile mills are like giant looms, but instead of one person working to weave a single piece of cloth, hundreds of workers operate machines that can produce massive amounts of fabric at once.
Cotton Gin: A machine invented by Eli Whitney that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
Spinning Jenny: An early spinning machine with multiple spindles, allowing for more thread and yarn to be produced by fewer people.
Industrialization: The process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods.
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