History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 94
loom as it stands isvery similar to the power looms of today.It w^as during this same period that theBigelow ingrain loom was completed inMassachusetts, but which was first to beginoperations cannot be quite determined.It seems to be true, however, that theJenks loom was not the equal of theBigelow… … ERASTUS B. BIGELOWInventor of the Power Loom for Carpet Weaving and erected them in a shop at Sixth andJefferson streets Philadelphia, about 1945.These machines did not work well and theywere finally sold for old iron. Anotherset of looms about contemporaneous withthose of the Bigelow^ loom were…
Textile industry -- United States · Textile fabrics -- United States
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