orson scott card was the author of weaving the web.
orson scott card was the author of weaving the web.
who is the author of weaving the web?
orson scott card
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edmund cartwright first proposed building a weaving machine that would function similar to recently developed cotton-spinning mills in 1784, drawing scorn from critics who said the weaving process was too nuanced to automate. he built a factory at doncaster and obtained a series of patents between 1785 and 1792. in 1788, his brother major john cartwight built revolution mill at retford (named for the centenary of the glorious revolution). in 1791, he licensed his loom to the grimshaw brothers of manchester, but their knott mill burnt down the following year (possibly a case of arson). edmund cartwight was granted a reward of £10,000 by parliament for his efforts in 1809. however, success in power-weaving also required improvements by others, including h. horrocks of stockport. only during the two decades after about 1805, did power-weaving take hold. at that time there were 250,000 hand weavers in the uk. textile manufacture was one of the leading sectors in the british industrial revolution, but weaving was a comparatively late sector to be mechanised. the loom became semi-automatic in 1842 with kenworthy and bulloughs lancashire loom. the various innovations took weaving from a home-based artisan activity (labour-intensive and man-powered) to steam driven factories process. a large metal manufacturing industry grew to produce the looms, firms such as howard & bullough of accrington, and tweedales and smalley and platt brothers. most power weaving took place in weaving sheds, in small towns circling greater manchester away from the cotton spinning area. the earlier combination mills where spinning and weaving took place in adjacent buildings became rarer. wool and worsted weaving took place in west yorkshire and particular bradford, here there were large factories such as lister's or drummond's, where all the processes took place. both men and women with weaving skills emigrated, and took the knowledge to their new homes in new england, to places like pawtucket and lowell.
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