He was a French weaver and merchant that married the loom with the steam engine to create autonomous looms. And in those autonomous looms, he gained control.
But then, the steam engine was invented, and then the railways came and the centers of industry were able to move away from the rivers and the countryside and into the towns.
So there is an obvious idea in the 21st century that was as obvious as the idea of putting together a steam engine with a loom at the time of Jacquard.
And then, with the advent of the steam engine, it was suddenly possible to process the same amount of sugar in a single day that used to take an entire decade to produce.
The Hogwarts Express, a gleaming scarlet steam engine, was already there, clouds of steam billowing from it, through which the many Hogwarts students and parents on the platform appeared like dark ghosts.