My fact of the day: Edmund Cartwright's first power looms were powered, not by steam, but by a bull!
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Replying to @antonhowes
True for most early IR powered machine innovations -- first powered by animal, later by water mill, only much later by steam.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @antonhowes
Water mills, and horses (occasionally oxen) on gins, could deliver much smoother rotary motion than early steam.
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