Eventually, however, the decline of apprenticeship became quite pronounced as the industrial advances of the later nineteenth century created a new demand for workers trained in a different way. As early as the middle of the eighteenth century, new machinery and other inventions of the emerging industrial era began to bring about remarkable changes in how work was performed. These changes were particularly apparent in the textile industry at that time, in which processes performed manually at home were slowly moved to early "manufactories" that housed new, automated looms and other inventions for textiles manufacturing. Similar innovations were occurring in other industries such as printing, agriculture, and furniture manufacturing