With the Industrial Revolution allowing advancements in the textile industry, mechanised knitting machines enabled the mass production of pom-pom hat bases. However the pom-pom ball proved a bit trickier. It wasn't until 1930 when Margaret Tassel and her husband Allan solved the problem producing the woollen fuzzy pom-pom in quantity. This photo is the only existing picture of Margaret as she puts the technology through its paces. The number of pom-poms the contraption could produce and their quality was, as you can see, disappointing. So it is hardly surprising that their invention was quickly superseded by a machine built in New Zealand.
The first machine designed to mass produce pom-poms for pom-pom hats. #aiimage #midjourney #generative-image #aiphoto #historicalmachines #inventionsthatchangedtheworld #objectsthatmatter