Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 150
large spinning wheel; near it is the smallerflax wheel; in another corner stands the great wooden loomwith its huge beam for the warp and its shuttle which must bethrown back and forth by hand. No carpet, not even an oil-cloth, is upon the floor, which is covered with pure whitesand. It would seem… … AN OLD-FASHIONED LOOM. CHAPTER II.THE COTTON GIN. In the quiet times that followed the French and IndianWar, two years after the Treaty of 1763, Eli Whitney wasborn in Worcester County in Massachusetts. During theRevolutionary War he was busy making nails by hand, theonly way in which nails were…
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