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 147
s, but with the introduction of the dobbie, or that part ofthe loom which raises and lowers the harness-frames, a new era in fancyweaving was inaugurated. By this ingenious device as many as thirty-six oreven forty heddles could be used and raised at will to form figures. The crea-tion of the… … loom op 1890. stantly, the vibrating gears, carried on the end of pivoted arms and havingteeth on a part of their periphery, the harness jacks connected to the heddleframes, and the links joining the vibrating gears and harness jacks in suchmanner that part revolution of the former causes the…
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