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    The Northrop Loom was a fully automatic power loom marketed by George Draper and Sons, Hopedale, Massachusetts beginning in 1895. It was named after James...
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    Lancashire loom. By the year 1850, there were a total of around 260,000 power loom operations in England. Two years later came the Northrop loom which replenished...
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    brothers were ready to begin production of the Northrop loom for the trade. In August 1894, the first Northrop Looms to be sold to a mill were shipped from Hopedale...
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    A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving...
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    he had filed several hundred patents some of which were used in the Northrop Loom. He retired at 42. He died in Santa Ana, California on 12 December 1940...
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  • British Northrop Loom Co Ltd was an engineering firm based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. The company manufactured machinery for producing textiles...
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  • Grumman Northrop Loom, an American designed weaving loom Northrop, Minnesota, a town Northrop, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood Northrop Auditorium...
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  • The Northrop was suitable for coarse thread but for fine cotton, the Lancashire loom was still preferred. By 1914, Northrop looms made up 40% of looms in...
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    responsible for educating him until she remarried. He apprenticed with a hand-loom reed maker, but is said to have returned home within a month claiming to...
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    became fully commercialized, with loom technology developing rapidly. Dobby loom Jacquard loom Paul Moody Northrop Loom Textile manufacture during the Industrial...
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    mainstay of the Lancashire cotton industry for a century, when the Northrop Loom invented in 1894 with an automatic weft replenishment function gained...
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  • Peter Norman Nissen Nordenfelt gun – Thorsten Nordenfelt Northrop Loom – James Henry Northrop Odhner Arithmometer – Willgodt Theophil Odhner Odón device...
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    separate looms or mechanisms added to a plain loom. A Northrop Loom was fully automatic and was mass-produced between 1909 and the mid-1960s. Modern looms run...
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  • Development of the Barmen machine 1889 – Northrop Loom: Draper Corporation, First automatic bobbin changing weaving loom placed in production. Over 700,000...
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    Types of looms Air-jet loom Dandy loom Dobby loom Hattersley loom Horrocks loom Jacquard loom Lancashire loom Northrop loom Power loom Rapier loom Roberts...
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    mule Carding Steaming Water frame Roberts Loom Lancashire Loom Northrop Loom Air-jet loom Rapier loom Dandy loom Lancashire boiler Associations Amalgamated...
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    automatic weaving loom designed by Sakichi Toyoda. The Toyoda Model G loom had mechanical sensors that automatically shut down the loom if a warp thread...
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    mainstay of the Lancashire cotton industry for a century, until the Northrop Loom (invented in 1894, with an automatic weft replenishment function) gained...
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    A Dandy loom was a hand loom, that automatically ratchetted the take-up beam. Each time the weaver moved the sley to beat-up the weft, a rachet and pawl...
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    mule Carding Steaming Water frame Roberts Loom Lancashire Loom Northrop Loom Air-jet loom Rapier loom Dandy loom Lancashire boiler Associations Amalgamated...
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    Afterward, a talim copyist makes copies, which are needed when multiple looms weave the same product. The script, which has been encoded, is deciphered...
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    Company (later the Draper Corporation), which introduced the innovative Northrop Loom to great success. William Draper, however, was a largely absentee owner...
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    trial of the Draper Northrop automatic loom was made at the Seaconnet Mills. Further trials and improvements to the Northrop loom were made over the next...
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    The Northrop Delta was an American single-engined passenger transport aircraft of the 1930s. Closely related to Northrop's Gamma mail plane, 13 were produced...
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    mule Carding Steaming Water frame Roberts Loom Lancashire Loom Northrop Loom Air-jet loom Rapier loom Dandy loom Lancashire boiler Associations Amalgamated...
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    they moved to Hoosick, New York, in Rensselaer County. His master, Henry Northrop, manumitted Mintus in his will, after which Mintus adopted the surname...
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    mule Carding Steaming Water frame Roberts Loom Lancashire Loom Northrop Loom Air-jet loom Rapier loom Dandy loom Lancashire boiler Associations Amalgamated...
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    mule Carding Steaming Water frame Roberts Loom Lancashire Loom Northrop Loom Air-jet loom Rapier loom Dandy loom Lancashire boiler Associations Amalgamated...
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  • mule Carding Steaming Water frame Roberts Loom Lancashire Loom Northrop Loom Air-jet loom Rapier loom Dandy loom Lancashire boiler Associations Amalgamated...
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