Horrocks loom
William Horrocks, a cotton manufacturer of Stockport built an early power loom in 1803, based on the principles of Cartwright but including some significant improvements to cloth take up and in 1813 battening.The invention of the flying shuttle by John Kay was critical to the development of a commercially successful power loom.[1] Cartwright's loom was impractical but the ideas behind it were developed by numerous inventors in the Manchester area of England.The Horrocks loom, introduced in 1803, featured an improved method of taking up the cloth onto the beam once it was woven.[5] According to a 1830 report to the British House of Commons, by 1820 there were an estimated 14,150 power looms in both England and Scotland; that number increased to 55,500 by 1829.