The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 132
NEGROES PICKING COTTON IN THE SOUTHERN STATES OF NORTH AMERICA COTTON 89 Mechanical Picking.—There are many difficulties in the way ofthe inventor of a mechanical picker. The pods do not all ripen at … Fig. 13.—Lowry Cotton Picker at Work one time, and they grow on the bush at irregular angles on shootsvarying in length. Seeing eyes and thinking brains are needed todirect the fingers of the picker; butit occurred to G. A. Lowry, an Irish-man resident in Boston, U.S.A., thathe might endow the…
Textile industry · Textile fabrics
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