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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 273

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KNOWLES LIGHT FANCY POWER-LOOM. The first power-loom for the weaving of wide cloth,as a practical result, was made by an Englishman, Dr.Edmund Cartwright, in 1787. There had been variousattempts to reach this result, made long before the suc-cess of Cartwright. More than a century before,…

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