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Hornet-Fez said:
Sabotage? The looms were often wrecked...?
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That's it Fez. His invention was a punch card which enabled looms to produce intricate designs which, previously, had been done manually. The workers were naturally up in arms about this. The French workers of this period wore wooden clogs which were called Sabots - one theory is that they used these to jam the machines, the other being that a large group of men wearing wooden clogs whilst taking strike action would obviously make a lot of noise. At any rate the words Sabotage, and Saboteur come from the name for their clogs. Over to you.
 
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colognehornet said:
That's it Fez. His invention was a punch card which enabled looms to produce intricate designs which, previously, had been done manually. The workers were naturally up in arms about this. The French workers of this period wore wooden clogs which were called Sabots - one theory is that they used these to jam the machines, the other being that a large group of men wearing wooden clogs whilst taking strike action would obviously make a lot of noise. At any rate the words Sabotage, and Saboteur come from the name for their clogs. Over to you.
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It was the Black Sabbath reference that done it!

Give me a couple of hours and I'll get a question up!
 
Did they have asteroids named after them? I know Freddy Mercury has. I always thought that that was unfair as he already has a planet named after him.
 
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