Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; (1911)

Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917, Foster, E. Everton, Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858 · Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company · leaf 177

An illustration from Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time;, 1911, leaf 177 — ton, by trade a weaver, by genius an inventor, who, at the suggestion ofhis employers, Messrs. Crocker & Richmond, Taunton, Mass., and aidedby their American enterprise, produced at their mills a power loom forweaving figured cotton fabrics, for which he obtained a patent in 1839.It was the finst… … Furnished throiigli the courtesy ot Crompton & Knowles Loom Works. t/AMES H LAMB CQ. OF THE UNITED STATES 139 Space will not permit us to mention the improvements that have fromtime to time been attempted or perfected by numerous inventors since theinvention of the power loom by Dr. Cartwright;…

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