10 sentences with 'textile'
Example sentences and phrases with the word textile and other words derived from it.
• « The first and most important industry to benefit from coal power, apart from mining itself, was the textile industry in the north of England, which harnessed steam power to drive new machines that processed cotton into finished cloth. »
• « Building on several other machine advances, an inventor named Edmund Cartwright developed the power loom in 1787, the first large-scale textile machine that could process an enormous amount of cotton fibre. »
• « The impact on the British economy was enormous, as was the growing dominance of its textile industry over its European rivals. »
• « Owen believed that productivity was linked to happiness, and his initial experiments were successful, with the New Lanark textile factory making steady profits. »
• « Many of the original members came from the ranks of the Lancashire textile workers before the group moved its headquarters to London in 1906. »
• « Jumberca, S.A., a company located near Barcelona, has become the international leader in the most refined textile machinery. »
• « Industrialised manufacturing began in New England, where wealthy merchants built water-powered textile mills (and factory towns to support them) along the rivers of the Northeast. »
• « In the late 1790s and early 1800s, Britain boasted the most advanced textile mills and machinery in the world, and the United States remained dependent on Britain for finished goods. »