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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 154

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th, and so long as the warps remain intact and thehopper is kept supplied with weft-bobbins, it will continue to weave. Infact, in many mills of the New England States these looms are now leftto run during the dinner hour without an attendant, and no imperfect clothis produced. Such machines are… … THE FIRST KNITTING MACHINE. LEE. an expert weaver; in 1840, the same weaver could tend from two to fourpower-looms running 100 to 120 picks; to-day he oversees from 10 to 16 loomsrunning from 150 to 200 picks. The homespun, with its old familiar butternut dye, has disappeared. Thespinning-wheel and…

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