MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILES 



escaped with his life, being smuggled out of the 

 neighborhood by friends. 



While the French mobs, like the English, might 

 destroy the new machines, they could not destroy the 

 ideas involved ; and the value of Jacquard's invention 

 had been too thoroughly demonstrated to allow its 

 suppression by localized acts of violence. Other simi- 

 lar machines were soon produced, and before the end of 

 the first quarter of the century, the Jacquard loom was 

 in general use, not only in France, but in every country 

 where extensive weaving was done. While the inven- 

 tor never realized the same financial gain from his 

 invention as did the more fortunate Arkwright in Eng- 

 land from his spinning-machine, he at least fared better 

 than Hargreaves, and spent the last years of his life 

 in apparently comfortable circumstances. He died 

 in 1834 in a place near his native home, having returned 

 there a few years after the destruction of his first loom. 



One of the great problems to be overcome was that 

 of producing a loom that would supply a full bobbin 

 of yarn to the empty shuttle, or replace an empty shut- 

 tle with a full one, without stopping the machinery. 

 But despite the efforts of numerous inventors this was 

 not accomplished in practical form until 1894, when 

 the Northrop loom was invented. This machine is 

 made with a magazine which is kept filled with full 

 bobbins, and by an ingenious mechanism automat- 

 ically forces out the empty bobbins and replaces 

 them without stopping or retarding the weaving. At 

 present this loom can be used for weaving the simpler 

 kinds of cotton fabrics only, but its popularity is shown 



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