biography
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| lived:
| (1743–1823)
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| biography:
| Inventor of the power loom, born in Marnham, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a clergyman (1779), and after visiting Arkwright's cotton-spinning mills devised his power loom (1785–90), and also a wool-combing machine (1790). Attempts to use the loom at Doncaster and Manchester met with fierce opposition, and it was not until the 19th-c that it came into practical use. In 1809 the government awarded him a grant of £10 000 for his achievements. |
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