Close up macro shot of industrial electric loom machine manufacturing ribbons, weaving fabric textiles

Titan 190 double-jet crank jet loom, 80 units, Zhongke Electric Control, electric transmission coil, 2019 | Chuang Gu

Power looms were essential to the American Industrial Revolution, shifting the production of textile from a slow, labor-instensive process done at-home and by-hand to a large-scale profitable industry manufacturing yards of cloth by the thousands. The machines themselves were "inspired" by British models - Francis Cabot Lowell toured factories in Britain and with the help of engineer Paul Moody recreated and improved upon these designs from memory alone. Using power generated from the water of t