. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . p a large and prosperous business at Stock-port during the thirty odd years in which he was engaged in manu-facturing the splendid product of his own fertile brain and enter-prise. He was a man of rare mechanical and scientific attainments,of great liberality and public spirit, particularly in the cause ofeducation, of strictest integrity, and of an unblemished reputationin all the walks of life. His sudden death, on the 8th of January,1872, gave a shock to the commu
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . p a large and prosperous business at Stock-port during the thirty odd years in which he was engaged in manu-facturing the splendid product of his own fertile brain and enter-prise. He was a man of rare mechanical and scientific attainments,of great liberality and public spirit, particularly in the cause ofeducation, of strictest integrity, and of an unblemished reputationin all the walks of life. His sudden death, on the 8th of January,1872, gave a shock to the community as the loss of a personalfriend. But a few days before he had been busy with preparationsfor a New Years reception to be given by one of his daughters,—anevent which he anticipated with much pleasure, but which wasdeferred on account of his illness. He died peacefully, as if passinginto sleep. His surviving family consists of six children, his four sons beinghis successors in business at Stockport, New York. *■ > \ S . .S-;. .. ^^^ -^ w^^MU >^^^^ ^K^ 1 **^i^H p m^^ 14 ^1 s ^(fef (13!!^f&,tV 4-. l»=U^ Ml. HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK. case a single thread of filling breaks. So accurate and deli-cate is the oonstruotioa of this portion of the loom, that itnever fails to perform its appointed task ; and when we con-sider the prodigous speed at which the machines are run, itappears truly wonderful that the simple parting of a frailcotton thread can bo made to act with such precision andforce as to cause an instantaneous stoppage without the in-tervention of human aid. 3d. The centrifugal friction pulley, which is an indispen-sable part of the loom. Mechanics will understand read! lywhat is meant, but for the general reader it may be neces-sary to say that this pulley is the point of contact betweenthe motive-power and the machine driven, and such is thenature of the construction that one may be instantly discon-nected from the other by a slight movement, wit
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