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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 290

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four inches in diame-ter, making three hundred and fifty pounds of loops, or THE LAMB KNITTEE 285 a yard in length of web, in a minute. * The rapiditywhich is attained by some of these machines may beknown from a statement that a person can by handform one hundred loops a minute, while the… … LAMB KNITTING-MACHINES. may be mentioned undershirts, drawers, comforters,scarfs, opera-hoods, talmas, nubias, gloves, mittens,mits, etc., etc. One of the most remarkable of these knitting ma-chines is one known as the Lamb knitter, from the name Hosiery and Lace. William Felkin THE JACQUARD AND…

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