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William Crompton
British-American inventor
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development of power-driven looms
- In textile: Power-driven looms
William Crompton, an English machinist working in the machine shop attached to a cotton factory in Massachusetts, undertook the development of a loom that could weave fancy goods, patented in both the United States and England in 1837. The loom was later much improved by…
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