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Northrop Loom

A Draper loom in textile museum, Lowell, Massachusetts
A Draper loom showing a Northrop filling-changing battery (the cylinder of pirns) in Bamberg, South Carolina

The Northrop Loom was a fully automatic power loom marketed by George Draper and Sons, Hopedale, Massachusetts beginning in 1895. It was named after James Henry Northrop who invented the shuttle-charging mechanism.[citation needed]