See my reply to @johnswentworth re other benefits of the threshing machine, beyond labor-saving, and evidence that farmers were keenly interested in it.
For looms, rather than comparing loom to no loom, compare the frame looms available in 1700 to the weighted vertical looms or back strap looms from long before. For the printing press, I don’t see how this is different. Books were not impossible to make; scribes made them by hand. Again, it was an efficiency gain.
You might be right that something like the spinning wheel, for example, had a stronger economic incentive than a threshing machine. I just don’t think that’s the main explanation for why it took ~50 years for the technology to diffuse rather than say 20–30.
See my reply to @johnswentworth re other benefits of the threshing machine, beyond labor-saving, and evidence that farmers were keenly interested in it.
For looms, rather than comparing loom to no loom, compare the frame looms available in 1700 to the weighted vertical looms or back strap looms from long before. For the printing press, I don’t see how this is different. Books were not impossible to make; scribes made them by hand. Again, it was an efficiency gain.
You might be right that something like the spinning wheel, for example, had a stronger economic incentive than a threshing machine. I just don’t think that’s the main explanation for why it took ~50 years for the technology to diffuse rather than say 20–30.