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 280
the loom; and verysoon found that in place of ruining their business, it hadthe effect to largely increase it. Jacquard lived quietlyand humbly, and died without any fortune. Some ofhis relatives, a few years after his death, were so pressedby poverty, that they were obliged to sell the gold… … CHAPTER XYII. THE JACQUAED AND OTHER LOOMS. IT should be stated that what is known as Jac-quards pattern-loom is not universally conceded tobe his creation from the conception to the completion;but there are some who hold that he simply carried for-ward to a practical end a machine which had been…
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