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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 152

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te operation necessary to weave hair-cloth, could never havebeen realized except in a highly intelligent manufacturing community ; butin 1870, Rhode Island alone produced on such machines over 600,000 yards,consuming thereby the hair of about eight hundred thousand horse-tails. The evolution of the… … CIRCULAR I,OOM. process. Near the lower edge of ladies skirts, on the ends of neckties andlike articles, an embroidered effect was desirable; and this has been securedby the lappet attachment to the present power-loom. In this a needle ismounted in appropriate location, usually back of the lay, and…

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