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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