 | Richard Guest - 1823 - 110 pàgines
...knew any thing "' of its construction, you will readily suppose that my first Loom must have " been a most rude piece of machinery. "The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least " half an hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong "... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pàgines
...or knew any thing of its construction, you will readily suppose that ray first loom must have been a most rude piece of machinery. The warp was 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... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pàgines
...or knew any thing of its construction, it will readily be supposed that my first loom must have been a most rude piece of machinery. The warp was 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... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1832 - 290 pàgines
...work, or knew any thing of its construction, you will readily suppose that my first loom must have been a most rude piece of machinery. The warp was 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... | |
 | 1835 - 492 pàgines
...practice, nor had even seen a loom at work, or knew anything of its construction, you will readily believe that my first loom was a most rude piece of machinery....; 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... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 528 pàgines
...The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong...thrown a Congreve rocket ; in short it required the power of two strong men to work the machine at a slow rate only for a short time. Conceiving, in my... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1836 - 296 pàgines
...loom at work, or knew anything of its construction, you will readily believe that my first loom was u most rude piece of machinery. The warp was placed...; 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... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 502 pàgines
...perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw I he shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket; in short it required the power of two strong men to work the machine at a slow rate only for a short time. Conceiving, in my... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 636 pàgines
...or knew any thing of its construction, it will readily be supposed that my first loom must have been a most rude piece of machinery. The warp was 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... | |
 | 1838 - 512 pàgines
...practice, nor had even seen a loom at work, or knew anything of its construction, you will readily believe that my first loom was a most rude piece of machinery....; 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... | |
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In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. 
