When the 19th-century invention of the power loom led to America’s first textile mills, it created the need for another invention: the factory town. As the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, the city of Lowell itself was an invention, a planned manufacturing center for textiles along the rapids of the Merrimack River. Take a look. - See more at: athm.org/museum_exhibition/mill-works-flowers-in-the-factory-and-inventing-lowell/#sthash.NlNOIyaG.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:41:02 +0000
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