The industrial inventions around textile production killed home weaving, a thousand-year tradition that allowed the yeoman farmer to clothe his family and make a little extra. In just fifteen years an eight-spindle machine became a thousand-spindle machine, still run by one person. This was a century of unrelenting change. The first piano. The first mercury thermometer, invented by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. The fire extinguisher. The telegraph machine, threshing machines, and self-winding clocks. The parachute and guillotine. Doctors found a new mental health crisis: people driven insane by
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