Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 266
vals in the same trade.He had obtained possession, too, we are told, of a secret methodof dyeing the hair, by which he doubtless contrived to augmenthis profits ; and perhaps, in his accidental acquaintance with thislittle piece of chemistry, we may find the germ of that sensibilityhe soon began to… … RICHARD ARKWRIGHT, FOUNDER OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. RICHARD ARKWRIGHT. 261 pened in the case of many other ingenious men, was an attempt todiscover the perpetual motion. It was in inquiring after a personto make him some wheels for a project of this kind, that in the latterpart of the year 1767,…
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