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Steam-powered loom introduced
Nochum Minc and Sender Bloch introduced a steam-powered loom in Bialystok in 1850.
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... The first silk factories in Bialystok opened in about
1850. To be sure, they were small, with weaving looms
that could be operated only by hand. This manual labor
was difficult and tiring. Jewish weavers labored day and
night for starvation wages. In 1850, two Bialystoker
Jews, Nochum Minc and Sender Bloch, were the first
silk manufacturers in Bialystok to institute a steam-
powered loom. Later on, they utilized electric machines,
which made the manufacturing process much easier.
Jews in Bialystok developed and modernized many
other industries as well — tailoring, tanning, furriery,
masonry, shoemaking and tobacco manufacturing. ...Connected nodes