Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874 · London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green · leaf 248
d scale into Manchester, where it underwent thesame changes and improvements as most others of the textilefabrics. The machines for spinning, doubling and throwing silkcontinued for nearly a century the same as they were whenfirst introduced into Derby. They consisted of a wooden frame,about 3 feet… … Leather straps passed round the drums, and pressing upon thewharves of the spindles, carried them round on the same prin-ciple as the * wiper or the spinning of a wheel by hand,revolving round its axis by a tangential force applied to its cir-cumference. This mode of driving continued in operation…
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