The large numbers of landless poor moved toward the cities just as factories were being invented to replace the home-based "cottage indutries."
The main products were cloth in wool and cotton, knives and swords made of steel.
By the end of the eighteenth century, some families had made huge private fortunes.Growing merchant banks helped put this money to use.
Each machine carried out one simple process, which introduced the idea of "division of labour" among workers. This was to become an important part of the industrial revolution.
When James Watt made a greatly improved steam engine in 1769, Wilkinson improved it further by making parts of the engine more accurately with his special skills in ironworking.
Other basic materials of the industrial revolution were cotton and woollen cloth, which were popular abroad.
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