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 381
mplication of strings, is used ; this being put in contact with aheap of cotton, the workman strikes the string with a heavy woodenmallet, and its vibrations open the knots of the cotton, shake fromit the dirt, and raise it to a downy fleece. The hand-mill and bowhave been used immemorially… … INDIAN SPINNING-WHEEL. The finer yarn is spun with a metallic spindle, sometimes withand sometimes without a distaff; a bit of clay is attached as a
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