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; . ashington, in getting anextension of his fathers patent for seven years. He then formed apartnership with Merrill E. Furbush, and in 1851 the new firm started themanufacture of looms in the Merrifield buildings in Worcester. The first looms this new firm built were (like the looms made by thosewho manufactured under licenses granted by his father, William Cromp-ton) narrow looms; that is,
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; . ashington, in getting anextension of his fathers patent for seven years. He then formed apartnership with Merrill E. Furbush, and in 1851 the new firm started themanufacture of looms in the Merrifield buildings in Worcester. The first looms this new firm built were (like the looms made by thosewho manufactured under licenses granted by his father, William Cromp-ton) narrow looms; that is, they were looms of about forty-eight-inch reedspace. These looms ran at a speed of forty-five picks per minute, that is,forty-five weft or cross threads were woven every minute. In 1857 constructed and patented a broad loom, nearly double the widthof the old loom, and he demonstrated that this new loom could be run atwhat was then considered the extraordinary speed of eighty-five picks perminute. This was a revolutionary improvement. The production of theloom had been quadrupled, for both the width and speed were doubled. On August I, 1859, the firm of Furbush & Crompton was dissolved. -i
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