Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . -ing machine was first introduced about 1824. Prior to this invention therolls issuing from the carding machines were limited to the breadth of thecard, the ends of the roll being spliced together by hand or by means ofthe billy. With the latter Goulding dispensed entirely, and so managed to 96 TEXTILE INDUSTRIES accomplish with four machines what had formerly been done with machi
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . -ing machine was first introduced about 1824. Prior to this invention therolls issuing from the carding machines were limited to the breadth of thecard, the ends of the roll being spliced together by hand or by means ofthe billy. With the latter Goulding dispensed entirely, and so managed to 96 TEXTILE INDUSTRIES accomplish with four machines what had formerly been done with machine afforded an endless roll or roping, and lessened the cost ofproduction, while increasing the quality and quantity. After 1830 no newsets of cards were started on the old plan of manufacturing. The forty-inch cards began to come into use about this time; in the old carding enginesthe width was twenty-four to twenty-six inches, a few being twenty-eightinches wide. The speed of the machine was also accelerated from seventy-five revolutions a minute to eighty-five and one hundred. In England thecylinder cards are preferably used, while in America the flat revolving cardis most in vogue. (See Plate 4.). OF THE UNITED STATES 97 THE HISTORY OF SPINNING BY WILLIAM F. DRAPER Spinning as an art cannot be traced to its earliest conception, as itdates back of all existing records and traditions. The mummies of Egyptconfront us wrapped in linen of superior texture, and in every nation thefirst advance toward civilization began with the use of woven fabrics. The production of cloth of any kind requires the production of yarnin advance. Spinning is the art of producing yarn, and consists in methodsof twisting vegetable or animal fibres into a continuous thread. Thisinvention has been discovered at different times by every intelligent race,and Columbus, when first landing on American soil, found the nativesclad in cotton cloths. To-day in diflerent sections of the world every step in the
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