The Industrial Revolution was a change from making things by hand to making them in factories. There were many great inventions that were made such as the steam engine, spinning wheel and many more. But one of the successful key development from the industrial revolution was The Steam Loom. The Steam Loom was a machine that used water power to weave cloth so that people could make a lot of cloth quickly. The first power was made in 1785 by Edmund Cartwright.
According to Modern History Sourcebook, its states in these renewed attempts to weave by steams considerable improvements were made in the structure of the Looms in the mode of warping, and in preparing the weft for the shuttle with these improvements which enabled the Tinners to make yarn much superior to that made in
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The increasing number of Steam Looms is a certain proof of their superiority over the Hand Looms. In 1818, there were in Manchester, Stockport, Middleton, Hyde, Stayley Bridge, and their vicinities, fourteen factories, containing about two thousand Looms. In 1821, there were in the same neighborhoods thirty-two factories, containing 5,732 Looms. Since 1821, their number has still farther increased, and there are at present not less than ten thousand Steam Looms at work in Great Britain. It is a curious circumstance, that when the Cotton Manufacture was in its infancy, all the operations, from the dressing of the raw material to its being finally turned out in the state of cloth, were completed under the roof of the weaver’s cottage. At the present time, when the manufacture has attained a mature growth, all the operations are again performed in a single building. The Weavers cottage with its rude apparatus of peg warping, hand cards, hand wheels, and imperfect looms, was the Steam Loom factory in miniature. In the Steam Loom factories, the cotton is carded, roved, spun, and woven