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 .. . to 14,188,103. Under such competition no wonder the spinning-wheel of our grand-mothers has followed the economic law, that the fittest alone survive, and THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 131 has been relegated to the wood-pile or garret, or, bedecked with ribbons, findsa resting-place in the chimne
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 .. . to 14,188,103. Under such competition no wonder the spinning-wheel of our grand-mothers has followed the economic law, that the fittest alone survive, and THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 131 has been relegated to the wood-pile or garret, or, bedecked with ribbons, findsa resting-place in the chimney-corner as a decorated curiosity. Its mightyrival is here. Its attendants have been liberated to more ennobling homespun has been replaced by beautiful fabrics, and the monster spin-ning frames of to-day pour forth their hourly product in miles of spun fibre,where the wheels of our grandmothers were taxed to the utmost to producea very small fraction of the amount. To appreciate the wonderful change,pause beside the domestic wheel used within the memory of the living, andcompare its whirr, in slowly producing its single thread, to the buzz ofthe modern spinning frame turning out its product from a thousand production of yarn required something more than spinning. The. HAND COMB OP THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. fibres in the massed cotton or wool, as delivered to the manufacturer, mustbe opened, untangled, straightened out, and laid parallel by a series of pre-paring machines prior to being spun, among which the carding engine ranksfirst. In the incipient form, this machine dates as far back as the middle ofthe eighteenth century, when, by hand manipulation, two cylinders coveredwith small teeth and working in close proximity disintegrated the fibrousmass ; but the fibres were much broken and not evenly arranged. Theaddition of the workers and strippers around a rapidly revolving swift gaveincreased utility to the machine, and Bramwells feed, in 1871, so reg
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