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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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machines for spinning it, and underthe magical touch of Richard Roberts, ofManchester, England, in 1830, the crudemule of Crompton took practical shape. He gave to it the quadrant windingmotion, provided for the harmonious working of the counter and coppingfaller wires, perfected the backing off… … SPINNING WHEEL. THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 127 most striking examples of complex automatic mechanisms that can be foundin the industrial world. The work of the attendant is confined to piecingbroken ends and supplying roving, the machine passing through the entirecycle of its complicated…

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