Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 891
itney, in 1793, from its general use, and its wondrous effects on the extension of cotton cultiva-tion, and influence on manufactures and commerce, may now claim distinction and consideration almostexclusively as the cotton-gin. In its main features this machine still continues as first invented… … Cotton-Gin Manufactory, Bridgewater, Mass., who are the owners of several patented improvements onthe machine, and from whom we take the following drawings and descriptions. Fig. 2121 is a sectionof the gin. The frame of the machine is made either of wood or iron, usually of wood, with tenons and…
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