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by YLE118 1279 days ago
Samuel slater is exactly who I was thinking of, I didn't know the Lowell story but it looks like I should do some reading about it. From that link it seems like they were involved in stealing ideas for similar machines with the difference being the amount of intervention required to operate them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater