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2026-02-22 13:22:16

Power loom built by T. Larmuth & Co., in Manchester, around 1860 - now at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
> "By the early 19th century, new machines like this power loom could make cloth more quickly and cheaply than people. Groups of angry handloom weavers raided cotton mills at night. They burnt and broke power looms to protest against the new technology."
This aspect of the Industrial Revolution is now being breathlessly repeated by those who s…

A structure of iron and wood has cotton thread laced through it and looks like a sophisticated, but relatively simple, mechanism.

Science Museum Group. Object no. Y6000.423