| Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...nor had ever seen a loom at work, or knew any thing "' of its construction, you will readily suppose that my first Loom must have " been a most rude piece...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... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...ever seen a loom at work, or knew any thing of its construction, you will readily suppose that ray first loom must have been a most rude piece of machinery....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 short time. Conceiving,... | |
| George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1831 - 370 pages
...practice, nor had ever seen a loom at work, or knew any thing of its construction, you will readily suppose that my first loom must have been a most rude piece...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,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...practice, nor had seen a loom at work, nor knew anything of its construction, you will 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 least half a hundred weight, and the springs... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...practice, nor had seen a loom at work, nor knew anything of its construction, you will 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 least half a hundred weight, and the springs... | |
| George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 290 pages
...nor had ever sefin a loom at work, or knew any thing of its construction, you will readily suppose that my first loom must have been a most rude piece...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
...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 - 656 pages
...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...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,... | |
| 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... | |
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