The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

At the instant of a fiery liftoff, an array of finger-size explosives is supposed to shatter the steel nuts that anchor a space shuttle to its launchpad.But for shuttle Atlantis, something went very ...

The13 astronauts aboard the linked shuttle Discovery and space station marked the twin anniversaries of the birth of human spaceflight and NASA?s space shuttle fleetMonday, even as the U.S. space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL (CBS4)-For the last time a United States space shuttle undocked from the International Space Station. As the shuttle pulled away, the docking port grew dimmer and fuzzier in the ...

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An indefinite strike by 200,000 power-loom operators in the Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has paralysed the transformation of yarn into cloth in one of ...

Sometime in the coming weeks, a convoy of trucks will depart Vidalia, Louisiana, for Trion, Georgia, carrying 45 antique Draper X3 shuttle looms, 45 Picanol President shuttle looms, and the fate of ...

Chennai: Power loom units in Tamil Nadu may soon face mandatory upgrades as a study highlights noise hazards. Tamil Nadu's 5.68 lakh power loom units, including over 89,000 in Salem and 19,350 in ...