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... steam engine was pressed into the service ; and thus another impulse was given to this already extensive department of our commerce . Perhaps it will be well in this place to say something of this most powerful of all agents , the steam - ...
... steam engine was pressed into the service ; and thus another impulse was given to this already extensive department of our commerce . Perhaps it will be well in this place to say something of this most powerful of all agents , the steam - ...
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... power to purposes of utility . About thirty years before the inventions of Wyatt , Arkwright , and others , the steam - engine was successfully used in mining ope- rations . Prior to the perfecting of the steam - engine , the miners ...
... power to purposes of utility . About thirty years before the inventions of Wyatt , Arkwright , and others , the steam - engine was successfully used in mining ope- rations . Prior to the perfecting of the steam - engine , the miners ...
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... steam - engine in its first state of rough utility . But to James Watt the glory belongs of per- fecting and simplifying this machine to the beautiful power of the present day . Mr. Watt was a mathematical instrument maker living in the ...
... steam - engine in its first state of rough utility . But to James Watt the glory belongs of per- fecting and simplifying this machine to the beautiful power of the present day . Mr. Watt was a mathematical instrument maker living in the ...
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... steam- engine became from that time the great object of Mr. Watt ; every resource of mind and body was called into ... power . Mr. Baines finely remarks , that it is worthy of obser- vation that Mr. Watt took out his patent for his ...
... steam- engine became from that time the great object of Mr. Watt ; every resource of mind and body was called into ... power . Mr. Baines finely remarks , that it is worthy of obser- vation that Mr. Watt took out his patent for his ...
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... steam - engine that was introduced into the cotton trade was made for the firm of the Robinsons of Papplewick , in Nottinghamshire , in the year 1785 . An atmospheric engine had been put up by Messrs . Arkwright and Simpson for their ...
... steam - engine that was introduced into the cotton trade was made for the firm of the Robinsons of Papplewick , in Nottinghamshire , in the year 1785 . An atmospheric engine had been put up by Messrs . Arkwright and Simpson for their ...
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Page 72 - 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 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 17 - Nor was this all, but it crept into our houses, our closets, and bed-chambers ; curtains, cushions, chairs, and at last beds themselves, were nothing but...
Page 70 - to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in company with some gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery. 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 would never be found to weave it.
Page 133 - An Act to regulate the Labour of Children and Young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom...
Page 71 - 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.
Page 71 - I then had of the business, there could only be three movements, which were to follow each other in succession, 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 sail cloth is usually made of. To my great delight, a piece of cloth, such as it was, was the produce.
Page 9 - European would scarcely be able to make a piece of canvas, with the instruments which are all that an Indian employs in making a piece of cambric.
Page 72 - April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of operation with mine. Availing myself, however, of what I then saw, I made a loom in its general principles nearly as they are now made. But it was not till the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August the 1st of that year.
Page 5 - At the hour of prayer, he repaired to the mosch of Medina, clothed in a thin cotton gown, a coarse turban on his head, his slippers in one hand, and his bow in the other, instead of a walking staff.
Page 95 - ... to apply it with exactness,) and struck with an iron mallet. Thus the figure was impressed upon the cloth, one colour only being used at once ; and if other colours were required to complete the pattern, it was necessary to repeat the operation with different blocks. In order to produce more delicate patterns than could be engraved on wood...