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 138
e entirecycle of its complicated movements without human direction. An idea maybe had of its delicate and accurate operation when it is considered that onepound of cotton has been spun by it into a thread one hundred and sixty-seven miles long. Improvements have been made, indeed, on Robertss… … PRIMITIVE HAND LOOM. Hargreaves and Arkwright, but while it constituted a great advance overthese machines, it presented no radical departure in principle. We may pause here, as we pass through the third decade of the presentcentury, to witness the introduction of a spinning-frame, which, for…
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