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Cartwright patents the power loom

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The patent came forty years before the machine was reliable. Warp had to be dressed to survive mechanical beating, and stop-motions had to be developed before a shed could be run at a profit, so the interval between the patent and general adoption was filled by an expansion of hand weaving rather than its replacement.

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  1. Story
  2. The patent came forty years before the machine was reliable. Warp had to be dressed to survive mechanical beating, and stop-motions had to be developed before a shed could be run at a profit, so the interval between the patent and general adoption was filled by an expansion of hand weaving rather than its replacement.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The power loom
  5. The British textile industry
  6. Cartwright patents the power loom
  7. Connections
  8. The power loom
  9. The British textile industry
  10. Cartwright patents the power loom
  11. The handloom weavers are displaced
  12. The spinning jenny
  13. Raw cotton
  14. The Engels pause
  15. The Factory Inspectorate
  16. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  17. Hargreaves devises the spinning jenny
  18. Crompton completes the spinning mule
  19. The rotative engine turns a shaft
  20. Cartwright patents the power loom
  21. Arkwright's patents are overturned
  22. The handloom weavers are displaced
  23. The Great Exhibition
  24. Evidence
  25. Supports the high-wage-economy explanation of why mechanisation was profitable in Britain first, the sequence of textile bottlenecks, and the dating and interpretation of the Engels pause. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — outbound HTTP to research domains is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before this pack began. The book is a real and widely held title, but nothing attributed to it here was read from it.
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