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The Industrial Revolution started in Britain in the mid-1700s. British inventors developed new machines that transformed the textile industry. Samuel Slater was a skilled mechanic in a British textile mill, the spinning wheel by Richard Arkwright and also the rotary machine (which used steam) by Matthew Boulton and James Watt.

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