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 140
e Sawyer type, atmore than seven thousand revolutions, would vibrate, and of the manyattempts to cure the defect none succeeded fully until the very simplechange made by Mr. Eabbeth in 1878. He gave the spindle a small amountof play by making the bolster loose in its supporting case, and placed a… … GINNING COTTON. THE OLD WAV, PRIOR TO 1800.
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