Power loom

Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom in 1785. The power loom was a steam-powered, mechanically operated version of a regular loom. It was an invention that combined threads to make cloth.

Power loom invented by Edmund Cartwright. Image from Textile Mercury, a Manchester paper published by Marsden, in 1892.

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data computation. Jacquard came from a family of silk weavers and went through a bankruptcy and the French Revolution before starting work on an automated, […]

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