Paul Moody (inventor)
Paul Moody was a U.S. textile machinery inventor born in Byfield, Massachusetts . He is often credited with developing and perfecting the first power loom in America, which launched the first successful integrated cotton mill at Waltham, Massachusetts in 1814, under the leadership of Francis Cabot Lowell and his associates.
Paul Moody was born May 23, 1779 at Byfield, Massachusetts, the son of Paul Moody and one of nine children.
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