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The Northrop Automatic Loom `E` Model, for general weaving 1900s #202005282
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The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia 1930s / 1940s - The Northrop Loom was a fully automatic power loom marketed by George Draper and Sons, Hopedale, Massachusetts beginning in 1895. It was named after James Henry Northrop who invented the shuttle-charging mechanism. A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
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