Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ention was needed to supply new filling. Progressive tendencies of theclosing years of this decade have sought to meet this difficulty. As a result, THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 143 means are now provided whereby, on failure or breakage of the weft, theloom discharges its imperfect filling from
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ention was needed to supply new filling. Progressive tendencies of theclosing years of this decade have sought to meet this difficulty. As a result, THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 143 means are now provided whereby, on failure or breakage of the weft, theloom discharges its imperfect filling from the shuttle, supplies itself with anew weft from the hopper, places it in the shuttle, and continues to a loom provided with a warp stop-motion is almost incapable of pro-ducing imperfect cloth, and so long as the warps remain intact and thehopper is kept supplied with weft-bobbins, it will continue to weave. Infact, in many mills of the New England States these looms are now leftto run during the dinner hour without an attendant, and no imperfect clothis produced. Such machines are almost independent of human attention, yet they are theevolution of the old-time hand loom. Just one hundred years ago the handloom, running at 40 or 50 picks to the minute, required the watchful care of. THE FIRST KNITTING MACHINE. LEE. an expert weaver; in 1840, the same weaver could tend from two to fourpower-looms running 100 to 120 picks; to-day he oversees from 10 to 16 loomsrunning from 150 to 200 picks. The homespun, with its old familiar butternut dye, has disappeared. Thespinning-wheel and loom no longer occupy a part of every home. In theirstead, the farmer, as he looks beyond the thriving cornfields, beholds thereeking chimneys of a thousand mills as they proclaim the majesty of thepower machines. The fabrics produced are beautiful and varied in design,and their cost so low as to excite wonder that such progress could havebeen the result of one hundred years of industrial acti
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