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History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)

Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 319

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rding as 2, 3, 4,or 5 cylinders may have been employed. The savingof labour, therefore, is immense: one of the cylinderprinting machines, attended by a man and a boy, isactually capable of producing as much work as could beturned out by one hundred block printers and as manytear-boys ! In… … THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 267 Another admirable invention, analogous to that justdescribed, multiplied the advantages of cylinder printing.The process of engraving itself, instead of being executedby the graver on the whole surface of the copper cylinder,is noAv performed by mechanical pressure,…

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