Editing Flying shuttle (section)

==History==
The history of this device is difficult to accurately ascertain due to poor documentation at the time. Nonetheless, there are two general schools of thought around this: first those that believe that it appears to have been invented in the region of [[Languedoc]] of southern France (one year before its introduction in England), but was destroyed by state cloth inspectors of the rent-seeking [[Ancien Regime]];<ref>See {{cite book | last=Heller | first=Henry | chapter=The Bourbon economic restoration | doi=10.1017/cbo9780511523342.008 | title=Labour, science, and technology in France, 1500-1620 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | publication-place=Cambridge | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-521-55031-4 | oclc=32050477 | pages=180-181 | postscript=none}}, for Lyon;  {{cite book | last=Thomson | first=James K. J. | date=22 July 1982 | chapter=The second thirty years, 1725–54 | doi=10.1017/CBO9780511523519.010  | title=Clermont-de-Lodève 1633-1789: Fluctuations in the prosperity of a Languedocian cloth-making town | publication-place=Cambridge, UK | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-23951-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaG3ZDF02OYC&pg=PA336 | pages=336-337 | postscript=none}}, for Languedoc. ----- cite from {{cite book | last=Epstein | first=S. R. | date=31 March 2008 | chapter=Craft guilds, apprenticeship, and technological change | editor-last=Epstein | editor-first=S. R. | editor-last2=Prak | editor-first2=Maarten | title=Guilds, innovation and the European economy, 1400–1800 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-1-139-47107-7 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fXlALljcyMkC&pg=PA68 | page=68}}</ref> second, those that believe it simply originated where it was industrialized, that is in England.