Tops, a new American industry; a study in the development of the American worsted manufacture. The Arlington mills (1898)
Arlington Mills · Cambridge, Printed at the Riverside press · leaf 178
to weave the two pictures was one hour and one columbus SIGHTING quarter. America The silk yarn used in each picture, if extended ina straight line, would measure 10,814 feet, or a littleover two miles. … APPENDIX C THE FIRST CARDING ENGINE BTHLT IN AMERICA The picture of a primitive carding engine, whichis published by the courtesy of the Davis & FurberMachine Company, of Andover, Mass., is a repro-duction of what is undoubtedly the oldest machineof this description now in existence in the…
Woolen and worsted manufacture
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