. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . e number of hanks to a pound indicate
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . e number of hanks to a pound indicate thesize of the yarn; as No. i, No. 2, and so on. For weaving, the yarns which are to compose the warp of the cloth orcarpet are wound off from the reels upon a long roller in a broad band ofparallel threads the width of the intended piece of stuff. Theweaving. ^ pkced in the loQm> A forest of wires> or stout threads, crosses the loom from one side to the other, each one carrying an eye about OF THE UNITED STATES. 3-9 the middle of its length. The yarns of the warp are passed through the eyesof the harness, as it is called, and thence on to the roller at the front of theloom. The office of the harness is to raise one set of the threads of the warp,and depress another set, so as to leave an opening through which the shuttlecan be thrown, carrying the thread of the woof, and, when the shuttle haspassed through, to depress the upper set and raise the lower set, thus lockingthe woof in its place, and opening the warp anew for another throw of the. SHEARING-MACHINE. shuttle. This is the principle upon which all looms are made ; but great inge-nuity has been displayed in the management of the principle, so as to producenot only plain goods by means of the loom, but goods of all sorts of coloredpatterns, and varieties of surface. Threads of different colors are introducedfor different parts of the warp ; and a large variety of colors, sometimes eightor ten, are introduced by mult
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