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Edmund Cartwright - The Turk was visited in London by Rev. Edmund Cartwright in 1784. He was so intrigued by the Turk that he would later question whether "it is more difficult to construct a machine that shall weave than one which shall make all the variety of moves required in that complicated game." Cartwright would patent the prototype for a power loom within the year.

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Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom in 1785. The power loom was a steam-powered, mechanically operated version of a regular loom. It was an invention that combined threads to make cloth.

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The Lancashire cotton industry owes it existence mainly to the engineers who evolved the ingenious machines that carry out the complicated operations of spinning and weaving formerly done by hand

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