<P> The development of mills to mechanise the weaving process was more gradual partly because of the success of John Kay 's 1733 invention of the flying shuttle , which increased the productivity of domestic hand loom weavers . Kay took out a patent for the application of water power to a Dutch loom in 1745 and opened a weaving factory in Keighley in 1750 , but nothing is known of its success . A further attempt to mechanise the weaving process took place at Garrett Hall in Manchester in 1750 but was unsuccessful in enabling one worker to operate more than a single loom . The first feasible power loom was patented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785 , although it was initially a primitive device it established the basic principle that would be used in powered weaving until the 20th century . In 1788 Cartwright opened Revolution Mill in Doncaster which was powered by a Boulton and Watt steam engine and had 108 power looms on three floors as well as spinning machinery , but it was not a commercial success and closed in 1790 . A second mill using Cartwright 's machinery , opened in Manchester in 1790 but was burned to the ground by hand loom weavers within two years . By 1803 there were only 2,400 power looms operating in Britain . </P>
who established the first textile mill where spinning and weaving occurred in one place
Edmund Cartwright