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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FIRST POWER LOOM. II for trial. Many little matters were to be overcome or adjusted before it would work perfectly. Mr. Lowell said to me that he did not wish me to see it until it was complete, of which he would give me notice. At length the time arrived. He invited me to go out with him and see the loom operate. I well remember the state of admiration and satisfaction with which we sat by the loom; watching the beautiful movement of this new and wonderful machine, destined, as it evidently was, to change the character of all textile industry. This was in the autumn of 1814. Mr. Lowell's loom was different in several particulars from the English loom, which was afterwards made public. The principal movement was by a cam, revolving with an eccentric motion, which has since given place to the crank motion now universally used. Some other minor improvements have since been introduced, mostly tending to give it increased speed. The article first made at Waltham was precisely the article of which a large portion of the manufacture of the country has continued to consist?a heavy sheeting of No. 14 yarn, 37 inches wide, 44 picks to the inch, and weighing something less than three yards to the pound. These goods were sold in 1816 for 30 cents per yard; in 1819, for 21 cents; in 1826, for 13 cents; in 1829, for 8 1-2 cents; in 1843, for 6 1-2 cents,?the lowest figure they ever reached. They are now (March,1869,) quoted in the New York wholesale markets at about 13 cents a yard. Introduction of the Power Loom: By Nathan Appleton. The property of this company now consists of two mills for making cloth, containing 40,000 spindles and 700 looms ; one mill for making hosiery, turning out about 600 dozen per day; and a bleachery and dye works, with facilities for ble...
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