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 143
to tax the ingenuity of an enlightened age. Attempts had beenmade to do this by hand implements not unlike the curry-comb of to-day,except that the teeth were long and tapering. This remained the only meansemployed for years, while other textile machinery passed through its phe-nomenal period of… … NOBLE COMB OF 1890. on this principle, and in a developed form it is used still and known as theHeilman or nip comb. In 1853, James Noble gave to the world the circle comb, wherein two flatcircular rings, having projecting from one face vertical pins, were mounted,one eccentrically within the…
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