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MACHINES, FACTORIES, AND FACTORY ACTS. 3...
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follow business each _, there other could in succession only be three there movem would be ents little which difficulty were in to
producing diately emp and loyed repeating a carpenter them , . and Full smith of these to carry ideas them , I imme into
is effect to usuall put . in y As the made soon warp of as . which the To my m was achin great of e deli was such ght finished materials a piece , I of b as got efore cloth ten a t weaver turned , cloth such
as it waswas the produce : As I had never nor my thoug had ever hts , to seen anything a loom mech at anical work , either or knew in theory anything or practice of its ,
construction , you will readily suppose , that my first loom must have " The been w a most was rude laced piece perpendic of machinery ularly . the reed fell with a
threw force of the at shuttle arp least half were p an strong hundred-wei h g to ht have , and , thrown the springs a congreve which
enoug to rocket work . the In short machine it required at a slow the rate streng and th onl of two for powerful a short time men . y
valuable all Conceivin that property was g in require my by great a d , patent I then simp , 4 licity secu th A re pril , d that , wh 1785 at I . had I This thoug accomp being ht a lished done most , and
will I then condescended astonishment to see when how other I compared people their wove easy ; modes you of operation guess my with mine loom . Availing , its myself however les of nearl what I
then sawI made a on general princip , y as they are leted now , made invention . But it when was I not took till out the my year last 1787 weavin that g I -
patent and comp This after , August new having my loom 1 st been could of that subjected , be year worked . to various either by improvements water or steam and ,
in adaptations our factories from under time to the tim n e ame by different of the Powe hands r , loom is still . B in use its y
means occupation not being only " was rendered rapidity much of less execution laborious attained than , form but erl the y
and it reverted though at the least femin partiall ine form y to , of those the word who has had not first been in followed the revived olden it ; , ,
women again became websters , " as they had been time
fresh And . and not enormous only did impetus ancient throug bran h ches the of influence industry of modern receive 1768
inventions stockinger , of but Notting quite ham novel , whose ones eye also happened arose . to About be caught by a the new lace on his wife ' s cap , after looking ht at mak it intently for
some timewas struck by the idea that he mige something " like it upon successful , his frame further if he tried adaptation . His attempt of the proved machinery in some
produced machines measure came further into improvements ; extensive use , and the by fine 1820 yarn Lace produced -making by
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Machines, Factories, And Factory Acts. 3...
MACHINES , FACTORIES , AND FACTORY ACTS . 331
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/43/
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