Wool combing factory, 19th century. Illustration of the wool combing factory of Isaac Holden at Reims, France. Wool combing machines, part of the mech

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Wool combing factory, 19th century. Illustration of the wool combing factory of Isaac Holden at Reims, France. Wool combing machines, part of the mechanization of the textile industry, arrange wool fibres in parallel strands. Artwork from volume 8 (1868) of a republication of 'Les Grandes Usines', a multi-volume work on French industry by journalist and author Julien Turgan (1824-1887).

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