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... to four pulley - boxes , each of which has a tail , simple , and drawboy to operate upon it . These complicated looms contain from one to twelve cumber boards ( some- times called harness boards ) which are often made stationary.
... to four pulley - boxes , each of which has a tail , simple , and drawboy to operate upon it . These complicated looms contain from one to twelve cumber boards ( some- times called harness boards ) which are often made stationary.
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... contain merely such scraps and sketches as were furnished for them , by persons who required instruction them- selves , as the matter there presented , abundantly testifies . Such compilations are nearly filled with tables and useless ...
... contain merely such scraps and sketches as were furnished for them , by persons who required instruction them- selves , as the matter there presented , abundantly testifies . Such compilations are nearly filled with tables and useless ...
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... containing every word in them , its derivation , and its explana- tion ; with notes of copious illustration upon every point which they involve . The first inscription of ten lines is thus translated : We dwelt , living long luxuriously ...
... containing every word in them , its derivation , and its explana- tion ; with notes of copious illustration upon every point which they involve . The first inscription of ten lines is thus translated : We dwelt , living long luxuriously ...
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... containing a moderate quantity of compressed air . On the shuttle being entered at the top of the fly , ( exactly in the same way that bullets are dropped into ' Perkin's steam gun ' ) it descends into the return conductor , where the ...
... containing a moderate quantity of compressed air . On the shuttle being entered at the top of the fly , ( exactly in the same way that bullets are dropped into ' Perkin's steam gun ' ) it descends into the return conductor , where the ...
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... containing this shuttle and its fellows , to move towards the right hand side of the loom , their places being filled by the two adjoining cells , containing spare shuttles . This operation is repeated on the breaking , or failure , of ...
... containing this shuttle and its fellows , to move towards the right hand side of the loom , their places being filled by the two adjoining cells , containing spare shuttles . This operation is repeated on the breaking , or failure , of ...
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apparatus arrangement attached axis barrel bead lams bobbins breadth breast beam cam shaft carpet carriage Cashmere catch centre cloth roller colours comb connected crank cross cylinder damask dents design paper double cloth draw loom embroidery fabric fastened figure fixed frame France front fulcrum gauze groove harness board holes hook horizontal improvements inches invention knot lace lash leaf tweel leaves of headles length lever long march machinery manufacture means motion mounting needles operation pantograph passes patent pattern picks of weft piece pincers pinion placed plain plain weaving plate power loom produced pulley purpose raised ratchet wheel reed round screw selvage shawls shed shown in Fig side silk slide Spitalfields spring stripes stud-pin suitable tail cord tappet teeth texture thread breaks tion treadles turned twine upper warp threads weaver weft thread weight wire woven yarn beam
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Page 297 - A wreath, that cannot fade, of flowers, that blow With most success when all besides decay. The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for...
Page 18 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 43 - Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Page 297 - Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower...
Page 122 - some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood.
Page 44 - Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. 39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
Page 335 - ... her eye be diverted from her work but one moment, the end of a broken thread might wind round the beam so far, as to require five minutes or more to find it, and put the machine again in motion. But this is not the case with those used in America ; for while the machine is in operation, the attendant is frequently behind the bobbin frame, taking out empty spools, and supplying their places with full ones ; nor could the cradle warpers of America be used, except by being furnished with a selfacting...
Page 266 - These are the gifts of art; and art thrives most Where commerce has enrich'd the busy coast ; He catches all improvements in his flight, Spreads foreign wonders in his country's sight, Imports what others have invented well, And stirs his own to match them or excel.
Page 384 - The wise and active conquer difficulties, By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, And make th
Page 9 - Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects, physicians, must return to Egypt to learn, the origin of language and writing ; of the calendar and solar motion ; of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to a copper sword ; of making glass with the variegated hues of the rainbow ; of moving single blocks of polished syenite, nine hundred tons in weight, for any distance, by land and water ; of building arches...