The Arlington Mills : a historical and descriptive sketch, with some account of the worsted dress-goods manufacture in the United States (1891)
Boston : Press of Rockwell and Churchill · leaf 64
must still and always be performed by hand. Such sporthas modern invention made of language that manufacture,which means to make by hand, has come to mean just thereverse, — to make by machinery. Everything throughout the mills is planned with a view to thegreatest economy and the utmost expedition… … THE ARLINGTON MILLS. 49 intermixing, to great pipes, through which it is dropped intothe top story of another building, where it first undergoes aprocess, in a pecuHar machine, for eHminating some of the dry-dirt with which it is burdened in its marketed condition. Thesight of the long rows of…
Arlington Mills · Woolen and worsted manufacture
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