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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 144

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two beams, had to be opened to form the shed, the shuttlehad to be passed therethrough, the weft beaten to place, and means providedto feed the warp and to take up of the fabric an amount at each beat-up cor-responding to the size of the weft. These were the movements necessary inthe most simple… … PLAIN POWER LOOM, 1840. were clothed with the application of power. Even then the first embodimentdid not emanate from the hands of a weaver or engineer, but from Dr. Cart-wright, a clergyman in the church of England. It was not surprising thatthese looms failed of their expectations, for the…

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