Power Loom
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A Power Loom is a Loom that ...
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- See: Lancashire Loom, Loom, Line Shaft, Textile Manufacture, First Industrial Revolution, Weaving, Northrop Loom, Textile.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/power_loom Retrieved:2016-7-13.
- A power loom is a mechanised loom powered by a line shaft, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by Kenworthy and Bullough made the operation completely automatic.
By 1850 there were 260,000 in operation in England. Fifty years later came the Northrop Loom that would replenish the shuttle when it was empty and this replaced the Lancashire loom.
- A power loom is a mechanised loom powered by a line shaft, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by Kenworthy and Bullough made the operation completely automatic.