power loom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of power loom
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Like the power loom, the mechanized assembly line and the ATM, generative AI offers the promise of performing certain types of work more cheaply and efficiently than humans can accomplish.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
The government has proposed a series of increasingly tough measures to conserve energy as shortages of gas and power loom that could lead to rationing in a worst-case scenario.
From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2022
Building on various other machine breakthroughs, an inventor named Edmund Cartwright developed the power loom in 1787, the first large-scale textile machine that could process an enormous amount of cotton fiber.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Inventions like the power loom displaced artisans, and increased the relative demand for unskilled labour.
From Economist ● Jun. 15, 2017
From 1784 onward a clergyman from the south of England, Dr. Edward Cartwright, was gradually bringing to perfection a power loom which by the beginning of the nineteenth century began to come into general use.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts
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