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382 woman's work in the world's clothing...
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Virtuous T It He Asser Is A T By Ion Com...
would be filled to the brim almost immediately if its contentsis were no ted t constan several tly times crushed in order down . to This get the " drawin fibres g more " proces and s
more tec repea hnicall parallel called to each _" rovings other ; " six bein of g thes put , e so together ft ropes and , wlaich drawn are
out again y ( on the same princi , ple that the small pinch was put together and pulled out again and again by the fingers when
drawn testing the t t o tap a leng le ) , t un h til of _Hve each , inch inch es of , when the firs eac t h roving of these has cords been ,
as they might be called , are taken up again , and , by repeated nine drawings times , fur its ther extended vious leng to th the . thickness An admirabl of a e mere contrivance string ,
that provides _drawiog part - , box of tlia the t was if m any simul achin one taneousl of stops the y operating at thirty once -six un upon threads til the should breakage which break one is ,
repaired quite uninterrupted , while the . action The ery firs of t the transfer other to thirt the y actual -five continues spinning
machine gives a slight twist to the soft material , which enables it , indles instead an of being tion dropped which its into cons a canis tituti t er , to be previou wound sl upon too
delicate sp , to undergo opera ; and these filled spindles are carried y from one machine to another in a sort of basket made of buffalo
skin cons , tan and t use so for strong upwards * that thoug twelve h y those ears w they e sa showed w had no bee si gns in
of wear . , In the spinning machine the multiplication of nine times
been five is subjected yet further to its mul action tiplied the by t threads welve , for are after a dozen they times have
longer oriinal th " an roving before " ; dra so wn that out we into have a thread seen five each hundred inch of and the
g which forty in receive ches long their * , now deposit wound at the off rate upon of seven reels thousand or " bobbin revo s , " -
lutions evails per here minute universall . As these the piece inning -work " system mules" of have paym been ent
taug pr ht to keep their own y , accounts sp with unbribable fidelity , and announce them unerringly by means of an arrangement some late
hundreds at thin one g lik end e and a of gas tens the -meter machin indicating —three e m the small arking amount dials respectivel of under labour y a g t performed hou lass sands p ,
by by the each inspector worker , , . which , is noted down at the end of each week
off Yarn in the is sp always inning reckoned to the one by invariable u hanks , " length which of are 840 measured yards , therefore
hi the the her number fineness or lower of of hanks the according thread to the , pound denoted as many wei b g y hanks ht a determining corresponding of fineor few figure of
coarse g yarn , are , produced . Before the invention of Cromp , ton _' _s
382 Woman's Work In The World's Clothing...
382 woman ' s work in the world ' s clothing .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/22/
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