Industries of Massachusettes : historical and descriptive review of Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, Gloucester, Newburyport, and Amesbury, and their leading manufacturers and merchants (1886)
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana · New York : International Pub. Co. · leaf 24
orough revolution with startling rapidity. The 10x6 one-story workshop expanded into a factory ; the hammer and lapstone were laid aside for the pegging machine ; the awl and thread yielded to the sewing-machine, and all this within the memory of men now living. The Revolution in Production by… … harbor view— fort indepexdence. become the manufacturers of shoes. To enumerate the inventions that followed that of the sewing-machine would be tedious, and would take up more space than we have at command. Suffice to say, that there were the wax- thread sewing-machines of various makes, leather…
