Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . , being temporarily in Great Britain, was attracted by the effortswhich were there being made to improve upon power-driven weaving ma-chinery. He returned to Boston, two years later, with an excellent knowl-edge of the English machinery and of its uses, and, associating himselfwith others, notably with Mr. Patrick T. Jackson and Mr. Nathan Apple-ton, who were capitalists of Boston and who
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . , being temporarily in Great Britain, was attracted by the effortswhich were there being made to improve upon power-driven weaving ma-chinery. He returned to Boston, two years later, with an excellent knowl-edge of the English machinery and of its uses, and, associating himselfwith others, notably with Mr. Patrick T. Jackson and Mr. Nathan Apple-ton, who were capitalists of Boston and who actively interested themselvesin financing and managing the new enterprise, and with Mr. Paul Moody,of Amesbury, who was a skilled and reputable mechanic, for the first timein history systematically converted cotton into cloth within the walls of asingle building. Mr. Lowell experimented with his first power-loom at astore in Broad Street in Boston, but it was ready for trial only upon thecompletion of the new mill building at Waltham. By the united efforts ofMr. Lowell and Mr. Moody, one variety after another of successful tex-tile machines were developed and manufactured, until the sum of four hun-. # ^ pi 5^ OF THE UNITED STATES 417 dred thousand dollars had been expended, and the art of manufacturing cot-ton cloth from baled cotton within a single building under a single man-agement had been successfully initiated. The profits of this undertakingcreated a demand for its extension. The water power of the MerrimackRiver at the Pawtucket Falls was purchased. The IMerrimack Manu-facturing Company was formed to manufacture cotton goods in 1823, anda machine shop of the exact size of the most approved building for themanufacture of cotton cloth was constructed by it upon the banks of theMerrimack and Pawtucket Canals in East Chelmsford, now Lowell, withthe intention of constructing therein the machinery for the equipment ofthe Merrimack Manufacturing Companys Mills, and then, w
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