Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York : Henry Holt and company · leaf 119
n in another form was ;at hand, and this he adopted for his first experiments. One jof Mrs. Greenes daughters had a pet bird, and a coil of 8o LEADING AMERICAN INVENTORS iron wire to make its cage had just been unpacked. Thisprompted the notion that wire needles or prongs wouldserve to thrust lint… … Whitnkys Cotton Gin of wire, and disposed them in various angles and curves.He discovered that the prongs worked best when pro-truding about an inch from their cylinder. He found,also, that the wire should have a gentle curve opposed tothe direction in which the cylinder rotated. Week by weekthis…
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