 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...machinery. The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were...In short, it required the strength of two powerful inen to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity,... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...machinery. The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were...thrown a 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... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 290 pages
...machinery. The warp was placed perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight ; and the springs which threw 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... | |
 | Edward Everett - Franklin lectures - 1832 - 24 pages
...says Mr. Cartwright, was laid perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the 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... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 528 pages
...machinery. The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were...thrown a Congreve rocket ; in short it required the power of two strong men to work the machine at a slow rate only for a short time. Conceiving, in my... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton growing - 1836 - 502 pages
...perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least 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 two strong men to work the machine at a slow rate only for a short time. Conceiving, in my... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 pages
...says Mr Cartwright, ' was laid perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the 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... | |
 | Henry Brown (artisan.) - Cotton - 1840 - 218 pages
...fell with the weight 6f at least half a hundred weight, and the spring which threw the shuttle was strong enough to have thrown a congreve rocket. In short, it required the aid of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 pages
...Mr. Cartwright, " was laid perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the 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... | |
 | American Geographical and Statistical Society - Geography - 1852 - 610 pages
...affair. He says, " The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with at least four hundred pounds weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve Rocket? It required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short... | |
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In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short tune. 
