Campus Loom
Charles Newcomb, Omaha (Neb.) contractor and wheel maker, developed the celebrated “Newcomb Shuttle” along with a cylinder filling machine in 1895. He was to sell 100s of these looms in the early 1880s in Nebraska, Kansas, and western Iowa. In 1889, with a modified fly shuttle loom, he moved to Davenport and set up an enlarged factory where he produced the “The Weaver’s Friend”, a counterbalance loom with two harnesses and two treadles. Later, “The Little Daisy”, a two harness fly shuttle loom and “Weaver’s Delight”, a four harness fly shuttle loom followed.