Editing Flying shuttle (section)

==Social effects==
The increase in production due to the flying shuttle exceeded the capacity of the spinning industry of the day and prompted the development of powered spinning machines. Beginning with the [[spinning jenny]] and the [[waterframe]] until ultimately culminating in the [[spinning mule]], which could produce strong, fine thread in the quantities needed<ref>{{cite book|title=The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present |last=Landes |first= David S.|year= 1969|publisher =Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge|location= Cambridge, New York|isbn=  0-521-09418-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Ayres |first=Robert |title=Technological Transformations and Long Waves |date=February 1989 |url=http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PUB/Documents/RR-89-001.pdf |access-date=6 February 2018 |publisher=International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |location=Laxenburg, Austria |journal=Research Reports |isbn=3704500925 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101045104/http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PUB/Documents/RR-89-001.pdf |archive-date=1 January 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> these innovations transformed the [[Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution|textile industry]] in [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]]. The innovation was seen as a threat to the livelihood of spinners & weavers, which resulted in an uprising that had Kay's patent largely ignored. It is often incorrectly written that Kay was attacked and fled to France, but in fact he simply moved there to attempt to rent out his looms, a business model that had failed him in England.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Flying Shuttle Invention in the Industrial Revolution |url=https://www.historycrunch.com/flying-shuttle-invention-in-the-industrial-revolution.html |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=HISTORY CRUNCH - History Articles, Biographies, Infographics, Resources and More |language=en}}</ref>

The flying shuttle produced a new source of injuries to the weaving process; if deflected from its path, it could be shot clear of the machine, potentially striking and injuring workers. Turn-of-the-century [[Industrial accident|injury reports]] abound with instances in which eyes were lost or other injuries sustained and, in several instances (for example, an extended exchange in 1901), the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|British House of Commons]] was moved to take up the issue of installing guards and other contrivances to reduce these injuries.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Factories and workshops: Annual report for 1900 |journal=  Sessional Papers  |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3zpBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22flying+shuttle%22+injury+-space&pg=PA289  |pages= 289–290 |quote= During the past year I have investigated many shuttle accidents, and on no occasion where serious injury had resulted, has the shuttle guard been placed in that position for which it was intended. |publisher= [[Her Majesty's Stationery Office|H. M. Stationery Off.]] |date=January–August 1901 |volume= X |author= House of Commons of the United Kingdom |author-link= House of Commons of the United Kingdom |oclc= 4689281 }}</ref>