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Textile inventors and early American weaving history
A survey of early textile developments mentions steam and power looms, Jacobard loom patent, saw gin, and Cartwright. It notes American 1787 factory beginnings, 1790 silk growing in Connecticut, 1810 New York census figures, and Hamilton’s 1791 report on Hartford mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Parliament
Crompton
Connecticut
Horkock
Za IsLand
Watts
Whitney
Glasgow
Tennant
Jacquard
Lyons
Johnson & Radcliffe
Edmund Cartwright
Providence
R. I
England
East
West Indies
Egypt
Naroupon
France
Bridgewater
Cartwright
Alexander Hamilton
Hartford
New York