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History
Sakichi Toyoda is
born.
1867


1890
Sakichi Toyoda
invents Toyoda
Wooden Hand Loom.

1896
Sakichi Toyoda
invents Toyoda Power
Loom.

1906
Sakichi Toyoda
invents the Circular
Loom.

1924
Sakichi Toyoda
invents Toyoda
Automatic Loom, Type
G, with Non-Stop
Shuttle-change
motion.
Toyoda Automatic
Loom Works, Ltd.
(now Toyota
Industries
Corporation)
established to
manufacture and
market Automatic
Loom invented by
Sakichi Toyoda.
1926

Kariya plant completed; part moved.
1927


1929
Spinning frame production starts.
Automatic loom patent sold to Platt
Brothers & Co., Ltd. of the UK.
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