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 .. . SPINNING WHEEL. THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 127 most striking examples of complex automatic mechanisms that can be foundin the industrial world. The work of the attendant is confined to piecingbroken ends and supplying roving, the machine passing through the entirecycle of its complicated movem
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 .. . SPINNING WHEEL. THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 127 most striking examples of complex automatic mechanisms that can be foundin the industrial world. The work of the attendant is confined to piecingbroken ends and supplying roving, the machine passing through the entirecycle of its complicated movements without human direction. An idea maybe had of its delicate and accurate operation when it is considered that onepound of cotton has been spun by it into a thread one hundred and sixty-seven miles long. Improvements have been made, indeed, on Robertss mule,but aside from changes in details and form, the machine, as it left the handsof this mechanical genius in 1830, remains unchangei I. During this period, the fly frame was developed from the machines of. PRIMITIVE HAND LOOM. Hargreaves and Arkwright, but while it constituted a great advance overthese machines, it presented no radical departure in principle. We may pause here, as we pass through the third decade of the presentcentury, to witness the introduction of a spinning-frame, which, for origi-nality of conception and far reaching influence on the textile industry, closelyapproximates the achievements of the pioneer inventions of this art. Refer-ence is made to the ring frame in which the flyer is omitted, the bobbinbeing attached to the spindle and revolving with it. On the traverse rail,and surrounding each bobbin, is secured a flanged ring having loosely sprungthereon a light traveler, through which the yarn, as it comes, from the draw-ing-rolls, is led to the bobbin. Revolution of the bobbin carries the traveleraround the ring imparting twist to the yarn, and as it is spun it is wound onthe bobbin in proportion to
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