 | Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least " half an hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong " enough to have...rate, and only for a short time. " Conceiving in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, " I then secured what I thought a... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...In short, it required the strength of two powerful inen to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity,... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...thrown a Congreve rocket; in short it required the power of two powerful men to work the machine at a sloiy rate only for a short time. Conceiving, in... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1831 - 370 pages
...placed perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight ; and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner, George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 298 pages
...placed perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight; and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. jConceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 290 pages
...hundred weight ; and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Cohgreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two...powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only fora short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required,... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 656 pages
...placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 492 pages
...perpendicularly ; the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time." This, as we have seen, was in 1785: he also applied his talents to effecting the substitution of machinery... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1836 - 296 pages
...perpendicularly ; the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time." This, as we have seen, was in 1785: he also applied his talents to effecting the substitution of machinery... | |
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The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to... 
