 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...  The cotton fields and cotton factories - Page 72by Henry Brown (artisan.) - 1840 - 166 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful inen to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a...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.... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...Congreve rocket; in short it required the power of two powerful men to work the machine at a sloiy rate only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity,...what I thought a most valuable property, by a patent in April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove, and you will guess... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1831 - 370 pages
...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...thought a most valuable property by a patent, 4th of April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1831 - 436 pages
...of two powerful men to work the machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required,...thought a most valuable property by a patent, 4th of April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...the shuttle wore 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 Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most valuable... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...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. Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most valuable... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner, George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 298 pages
...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. jConceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 290 pages
...the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Cohgreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only fora short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required,... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...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...thought a most valuable property, by a patent, 4th of April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove; and you will guess... | |
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