 | Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...before turned my thoughts to any thing mechanical, either " in theory or practice, nor had ever seen a loom at work, or knew any thing "' of its construction,...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...readily suppose that my first loom must have been a most rude piece of machinery. The warp was laid perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at...hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle wore strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful... | |
 | Edward Everett - Franklin lectures - 1832 - 24 pages
...and blacksmith, he made one. It was a very rude machine. " The warp, says Mr. Cartwright, was laid perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at...springs which threw the shuttle, were strong enough to throw a congreve rocket." Besides this, it required the strength of two powerful men to work it, and... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...and blacksmith, he made one. It was a very rude machine. " The warp, lays Mr. Cartwright, was laid perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs whMh threw the shuttle were strong enough to throw a conirreve rocket." Besides this, it required the... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...loom at work, or knew any thing of its construction, you will readily suppose that my first loom was a most rude piece of machinery. The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 492 pages
...loom at work, or knew anything of its construction, you will readily believe that my first loom was a most rude piece of machinery. The warp was placed perpendicularly ; the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 508 pages
...nor had ever seen a loom at work or knew any thing of its construction, it will readily be supposed that my first loom must have been a most rude piece...springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough lo have thrown a Congreve rocket; in short it required the power of two strong men to work the machine... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton growing - 1836 - 502 pages
...nor had ever seen a loom at work or knew any thing of its construction, it will readily be supposed that my first loom must have been a most rude piece...half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw I he shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket; in short it required the power of... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...and blacksmith, he made one. It was a very rude machine. ' The warp,' says Mr Cartwright, ' was laid perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at...springs which threw the shuttle, were strong enough to throw a congreve rocket.' Besides this, it required the strength of two powerful men to work it, and... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1836 - 296 pages
...loom at work, or knew anything of its construction, you will readily believe that my first loom was u most rude piece of machinery. The warp was placed perpendicularly ; the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough... | |
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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. 
