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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 137

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ht be employed. Brilliant as these achievements were, the hand loom remained the crudeembodiment of the simple principles of weaving until near the dawn of thenineteenth century, when, by the invention of Cartwright, a period ofdevelopment was introduced in all lines of textile manufacture… … DISTAFF AND SPINDLE. in England, by Hargreaves, about 1767, whereby eight or ten yarns could bespun at one time. Drawing rollers were subsequently added by Arkwright,and then traverse motion was given the bobbins inorder to automatically build the yarn into a cop.It has developed since that the…

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