 | Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...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 "...invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, " August 1st, of that year." Mr. Cartwright erected a weaving mill at Doncaster, which he filled with Looms.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...Availing myself, however, of what I then saw. 1 made a loom, in its general principles, nearly as tht-y are now made. But it was not till the year 1787 that...invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August 1st of that year." Hut the idea of weaving by machinery was not new. About the close of the preceding... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...then saw, I made a loom, in its general principles, nearly as they are now made, but it was not until the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent in August in that year." This also ineluded the art of weaving checks, which the most skilful mechanics,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 432 pages
...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...often seeing their father about this time walking to artd fro apparently in deep meditation, and occasionally throwing his arms from side to side ; on which... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...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...last weaving patent, August the 1st of that year." l)r. Cartwright's children still remember often seeing their father about this time walking to and... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1831 - 370 pages
...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...invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August 1. of that year." The history of this invention is farther curious, as illustrating some of the many... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...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 1 completed my invention, when I took out ray last weaving patent, August the lst of that year.' Dr... | |
 | Edward Everett - Franklin lectures - 1832 - 24 pages
...Library of Entertaining Knowledge; Vol. viii. p. 347. Second American edition. 8 it is said, that " Dr. Cartwright's children still remember often seeing...their father, about this time, walking to and fro, in deep meditation, and occasionally throwing his arms from side to side, on which they used to be... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...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...invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August 1st of that year." Dr. Cartwright was led by his invention to undertake manufacturing with power-looms... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 656 pages
...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...invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August 1st of that year." Dr. Cartwright was led by his invention to undertake manufacturing with power-looms... | |
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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... 
