The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 252
es the sewingmachine, and assists in a thousand ways in carrying onthe simpler, but always necessary industries connectedwith every-day life. It is always simple, unpretentious,philanthropic, tireless in its labor, faithful to its mission,and apart from the more showy of the harnessed energiesof… … CHAPTEE XVI. THE SPINNING-WHEEL, LOOM, ETC. THE term spinning-wheel may very properly standas the type, the representative of the grandestindustries known to the modern world. It is the suc-cessor of the distaff, and the predecessor of the spin-ning-jenny, the marvellous power looms, the…
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