Across
- 2. you collect this from sheep
- 3. building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour
- 5. a period of one hundred years
- 7. a soft white fibrous substance which surrounds the seeds of the cotton plant and is made into textile fibre and thread for sewing.
- 9. relating to agriculture
- 10. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system
- 14. a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine
- 16. the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale
- 18. this invention is a mixture of both spinning jenny and the water frame
- 19. a strong, hard magnetic silvery-grey metal, the chemical element of atomic number 26, much used as a material for construction and manufacturing, especially in the form of steel. Compare with steel.
- 20. an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power
Down
- 1. a combustible black or dark brown rock consisting chiefly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground seams and used as fuel.
- 4. relating to or characterized by industry
- 6. relating to, or characteristic of a town or city
- 8. this invention introduced a more effecient way of weaving
- 11. helped increase the supply of yarn by spinning 8 things at once
- 12. the state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services and the supply of money:
- 13. this invention could be powerded by a waterwheel and produced lots of yarn types
- 15. adapt (something) to modern needs or habits, typically by installing modern equipment or adopting modern ideas or methods
- 17. a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole