 | Robert Vaughan - 1863 - 684 pàgines
...movements, which works 73,726 yards of silk thread every time the waterwheel goes round, which is thrice in one minute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One waterwheel gives motion to all the rest of the wheels and movements.'—Chamberlayne's Present State if Great Britain, p. 9. average between... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1866 - 464 pàgines
...which work 73,726 yards of organzine silk thread every time the water wheel goes round, being thrice in one minute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One water-wheel gives motion to all the other movements, of which any one may be stopped separately, without obstructing the rest. One fire-engine... | |
 | National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (U.S.) - 1898 - 476 pàgines
...movements which work 73,726 yards of organzine silk every time the water wheel goes round, being twice in one minute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One water wheel gives motion to all the other movements, of which any one may be stopped separately without... | |
 | 1898 - 752 pàgines
...movements which work 73,726 yards of organzine silk every time the water wheel goes round, being twice in one minute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One water wheel gives motion to all the other movements, of which any one may be stopped separately without... | |
 | Élie Halévy - 1924 - 604 pàgines
...were set in action by one large wheel, turned by the power of the stream, contained, he tells us, " 26,586 Wheels, and 97,746 Movements, which work 73,726 Yards of SilkThread every time the Water- Wheel goes round, which is three times in one minute." I Nevertheless, the manufacture of silk... | |
 | Witt Bowden - 1925 - 366 pàgines
...which work 73,726 yards of organzine silk thread every time the water wheel goes round, being thrice in one minute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One water wheel gives motion to all the other movements, of which any one may be stopped separately, without... | |
 | Will Bowden, Witt Bowden, S. Bowden - 1965 - 376 pàgines
...which work 73,726 yards of organzine silk thread every time the water wheel goes round, being thrice in one minute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One water wheel gives motion to all the other movements, of which any one may be stopped separately, without... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 2011 - 373 pàgines
...feet long and six stories high, and inside were machines described by Daniel Defoe as consisting of "26,586 Wheels and 97,746 Movements, which work 73,726 Yards of Silk-Thread every time the Water- Wheel goes round, which is three times in one minute." Equally worthy of note were the children... | |
 | Linda Levy Peck - 2005 - 460 pàgines
...first silk factory based on water power. It was five stories high. Daniel Defoe described it as having "26,586 wheels and 97,746 movements, which work 73,726 yards of silk-thread every time the water wheel goes round."1 When Lombe asked Parliament to extend his patent, it declined. Instead the... | |
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This engine contains 26,586 wheels and 97,746 movements, which work 73,726 yards of silk-thread every time the water-wheel goes round, which is three times in one minute, and 317,504,960 yards in one day and night. 