Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . wool,and made it connect together in a rough sliver, but did notclear it. The clearing was ])erformed by the second or a third operation if of his machines with anoverlooker and ten childrenwould comb a pack of wool intwelve hours. As neither firenor oil was necessary for mach-ine combing, the saving in thesealone generally paid the over-looker and children, so that themanufacturer himself po
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . wool,and made it connect together in a rough sliver, but did notclear it. The clearing was ])erformed by the second or a third operation if of his machines with anoverlooker and ten childrenwould comb a pack of wool intwelve hours. As neither firenor oil was necessary for mach-ine combing, the saving in thesealone generally paid the over-looker and children, so that themanufacturer himself pocketedAvhat he used to pay the hand-combers, while for machinespinning the machine-combedwool was said to be 12 per cent,better than the hand-combedsince it was better mixed andthe slivers uniform. Cartwrightsaid that it did the work of twenty hand-combers, but accord-ing to a verse of the time the machine fiimiliarly knownas Big Ben could do more than that:— Come, all ye Master Combers, and hear of our Big Beu,Hell coiul) more avooI in one day than fifty of your their haud-oombs and comb-pots and such old-fashioned ways,Therell be no more occasion for old Bishop RADCLIFFES IMPROVED HAND-LOOM. (From Barloii-s History of Low cO Co., Ltd.) St. Blaize, it may be explained, is the patron saint of wool-combers. Cartwrights machine was not entirely satisfactor}^and improvements and alterations in combing machinery weremade by Toplis, Hawksley, and Wright. The wool-combingmachines excited great opposition. A Bill was brought into theHouse of Commons to forbid the use of the machines altoo-ether, MACHINE BY AXD MANUFAC TUBES. 641 1802] but it was thrown out. In fact, the days for such interferencewere passed. Parhauient was taking a wider view of what wasgood for industries, and now decUned to cripple a growing tradein order that men who possessed a certain speciahsed skill shouldbe exempt from the competition of machinery. Two other improvements rem
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