Barker, A. F. (Aldred Farrer), b. 1868, Gardner, Walter M. (Walter Myers), 1861-1939, Snow, R, Cook, W. H. (William Hall), Bradbury, F. (Fred) · New York : D. Van Nostrand Co. · leaf 367
352 TEXTILES by offering 30s. per spindle to tlie owners of all mills who introduced the power method, and by the year 1816 there were 6,369 spindles at work. The hand-spinning method for the finer .yarns would, in all probability, have continued to this day but for the discovery of the wet- … FiG. 81. — Betting flax: putting flax in dum. From a photofjraph hij A. F. Hai-Ler. spinning process by Philip de Gerard, of France, about the year 1826. This process was subsequently and success- fully applied by Marshalls of Leeds, Baxter of Dundee, Mulholland of Belfast, and Murland of…
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