Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 233
222 LADLES. … As regards the capabilities of the machine, the manufacturers state that a single-cylinder apparatusof 22 in. diameter, 20-gauge, 4 feeds, knitting common hosiery, yarn cotton and wool mixed, running45 revolutions, has 920 needles, thus making 165,000 stitches per minute. A lC-inch cylinder,…
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