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 265
hanical Progress. Edward H. Knight. 260 THE SPINNING-WHEEL, LOOM, ETC. that it would have appeared about the same time, andwould have conferred immortality on some other name.Before the invention of the gin, it w^as the labor of a dayfor one hand to pick a pound of cotton from the seeds;the Whitney… … LAOLE C()LiO^ (jtIN. spinning machines; the cotton-gin settled the questionof supply; and there only remained the other problemrelative to the looms for the disposition of the productsof the spinners. Before touching on this, a word may be said of Whit-ney, who thus solved a problem whose…
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