A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture |
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Page 233 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations...
Page 264 - The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half an hundred- weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a congreve rocket. In short it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time.
Page 43 - England alone, amounts in each year to more than four millions of pounds' weight, for the production of which, myriads upon myriads of silk-worms are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually live and die to supply this little corner of the world with an article of luxury ! If astonishment be excited at this fact, let us extend our view into China, and survey the dense population of its widelyspread region...
Page 264 - One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired, so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands never could be found to weave it.
Page 264 - ... there would be little difficulty in producing and repeating them. Full of these ideas, I immediately employed a carpenter and smith to carry them into effect. As soon as the machine was finished, I got a weaver to put in the warp, which was of such materials as sailcloth is usually made of.
Page 185 - ... natural gum, makes them stick together, so as to form one strong smooth thread. As often as the thread of any single cocoon breaks, or comes to an end, its place is supplied by a new one, so that, by continually keeping up the same number, the united thread may be wound to any length: the single threads of the newly added cocoons, are not joined by any tie, but simply laid on the main thread, to which they...
Page 111 - The substance of which the silk is composed is secreted in the form of a fine yellow transparent gum in two separate vessels of slender dimensions, which are wound, as it were, on two spindles in the stomach. If unfolded, these vessels would be about ten inches in length. When the worm has fixed upon some angle, or hollow place, whose dimensions agree with the size of its intended silken ball or cocoon, it begins its labour by spinning thin and irregular threads, which are intended to support its...
Page 264 - Now you will not assert, gentlemen, said I, that it is more difficult to construct a machine that shall weave than one which shall make all the variety of moves which are required in that complicated game. Some little time afterwards, a particular circumstance recalling this conversation to my mind, it struck me that, as in plain weaving, according to the conception I then had of the business, there could only be three movements which were to follow each other in succession, there would be little...
Page 11 - ... they viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silkworms, whose education (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens.
Page 25 - At this time," says Anderson, "the laudable English fashions of former times began to alter in favor of France. The women's hats were turned into hoods made of French silk, whereby every maid-servant in England became a standing revenue to the French king of the half of her wages.