Consider the following pairs : Inventions — Inventors I. Flying shuttle loom — John Kay II. Water frame — James Hargreaves III. Spinning jenny — Richard Arkwright How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
- A.One
- B.Two
- C.All the three
- D.None
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, One. Only the first pair is right: John Kay invented the flying shuttle. The other two pairs have their inventors swapped.
These three machines started the mechanisation of the English cotton industry in the eighteenth century. John Kay's flying shuttle of 1733 let a single weaver throw the shuttle across a wide loom, doubling the speed of weaving and creating a hunger for more yarn. James Hargreaves answered with the spinning jenny of about 1764, which spun several threads at once. Richard Arkwright's water frame of 1769, driven by water power, made strong yarn in large quantities and led him to build the first true factories, such as the Cromford mill. Samuel Crompton's mule of 1779 combined the jenny and the water frame.
B is wrong because only pair I is correct, not two pairs. C is wrong because pairs II and III are swapped. D is wrong because pair I is correctly matched.
Exam tip: flying shuttle, Kay, 1733; spinning jenny, Hargreaves, 1764; water frame, Arkwright, 1769; mule, Crompton, 1779.
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