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 263
ion. The infamous crueltypracticed by the employment of young children has had THE SPINNING-WHEEL, LOOM, ETC. the effect to give us a race of people scarcely human intheir developments. While it is true that Arkwright was the first to em-ploy his operatives in masses under one roof, he cannotvery… … KING SPINNING FRAME. The machine perfected, or improved by Crompton, issubstantially the one in use in spinning at the presenttime, except that where he had some twenty-five orthirty spindles, those now in use have often from fifty toseventy times as many. This machine is automatic.The carriage…
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