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Paul Moody (May 23, 1779 – July 5, 1831) was a U.S. textile machinery inventor born in Byfield, Massachusetts (Town of Newbury). He is often credited with developing and perfecting the first power loom in America, which launched the first successful integrated cotton mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1814, under the leadership of Francis Cabot Lowell and his associates.
The First Industrial Revolution, edited by Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, 1989, in Great Britain by Basil Blackwell Ltd. The First Industrial Revolution, by Phyllis Deane, The First Industrial Revolution, 1965 in Great Britain, by the Cambridge University Press. The Industrial Revolution by Arnold Toynbee, 1956, in the U.S. by The Beacon Press
Later inventions such as the power loom and Richard Trevithick's high pressure steam engine were also important in the growing industrialisation of Britain. The application of steam engines to powering cotton mills and ironworks enabled these to be built in places that were most convenient because other resources were available, rather than ...
In the longer term, by making cloth more affordable the power loom increased demand and stimulated exports, causing a growth in industrial employment, albeit low-paid. [9] The power loom also opened up opportunities for women mill workers. [10] A darker side of the power loom's impact was the growth of employment of children in power loom mills ...
The reliable Roberts loom was quickly adopted and again it was the spinning side that was short of capacity. Roberts then addressed this, with the construction of a self-acting (automatic) spinning mule. Essentially, textile production was no longer a skilled craft but an industrial process that could be manned by semi-skilled labour.
Edmund Cartwright FSA (24 April 1743 – 30 October 1823) was an English inventor. [1] He graduated from Oxford University and went on to invent the power loom.Married to local Elizabeth McMac at 19, he was the brother of Major John Cartwright, a political reformer and radical, and George Cartwright, explorer of Labrador.
The Waltham-Lowell system, pioneered by Lowell and first introduced at the Waltham mill, was expanded to the new industrial city of Lowell and soon spread to the Midwest and the South. The mechanized textile system, introduced by Francis Cabot Lowell, remained dominant in New England for a century until the industry shifted to the Midwest and ...
Roberts moved his business in 1821, to the Globe Works in Faulkner Street. Whilst there he improved a reed-making machine, originally invented by the American Jeptha Avery Wilkinson, and in 1822 he patented a power loom. [4] This was made entirely of iron and being precision-made was able to operate at high speed.