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POWER LOOM
The designer of the first power
loom, Edmund Cartwright, was an
English clergyman. He realized that A steam-powered
belt drives
the process of cloth making could the loom.
be transformed using powered
spinning machines. His first loom,
built in 1785, was very crude but
by 1787 he had improved it
The finished
enough to start a weaving factory cloth is wound
in Doncaster, UK. This engraving onto a roller.
shows a busy factory in the 1830s.
HYDRAULIC PRESS MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
The beam transfers the motion Joseph Bramah was an inventor who
of the piston to the flywheel.
made locks and enhanced the design of
the toilet before turning his attention to
improving the manufacturing
process. His hydraulic press of
1795 operates by transferring
pressure through liquids. It
remains one of the most useful
The flywheel factory tools to this day, from
stores energy so
the engine can making metal sheets to molding
run smoothly. tablets for medical use.
Hand-powered hydraulic press
BOTTLE-MAKING MACHINERY
American Michael Owens left school at 10 to became
a glassblower. In 1903, he founded his own company
to develop a bottle-making machine. His machines
enabled standardized bottles to be mass-produced
for the first time, supplying companies like Coca Cola.
Modern bottle-making factory
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