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... week , for labor . Even the Hindoo spinner , at five cents a day , would make the labor cost thirty times as much with the spinning - wheel as it costs in one of our will modern frames , at the rate of wages paid in American factories ...
... week , for labor . Even the Hindoo spinner , at five cents a day , would make the labor cost thirty times as much with the spinning - wheel as it costs in one of our will modern frames , at the rate of wages paid in American factories ...
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... week , and at the step about once a month . In 1870 Oliver Pearl , overseer at the Atlantic Mills , Lawrence , patented an improvement in ring spindles , which might have been deemed important but for its being quickly followed by an ...
... week , and at the step about once a month . In 1870 Oliver Pearl , overseer at the Atlantic Mills , Lawrence , patented an improvement in ring spindles , which might have been deemed important but for its being quickly followed by an ...
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... in the best mills , about a cent and one - tenth per spindle per week , or fifty - seven cents a year . labor saved per annum is , therefore , above $ 2,200,000 . The Then , again , the old - fashioned spindles required 42.
... in the best mills , about a cent and one - tenth per spindle per week , or fifty - seven cents a year . labor saved per annum is , therefore , above $ 2,200,000 . The Then , again , the old - fashioned spindles required 42.
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... weeks , making a saving which would be counted a large benefit , were the other items not so enormous . Capitalizing all these gains at ten times the annual saving and omitting the minor advantages , the advantage to the community by ...
... weeks , making a saving which would be counted a large benefit , were the other items not so enormous . Capitalizing all these gains at ten times the annual saving and omitting the minor advantages , the advantage to the community by ...
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... weeks after looking the ground over for the best thing , adopted for trial a modified form of pan fire , the pan being ... week or two , discovered that the fuel account was growing visibly larger . Perhaps it is not strange that these ...
... weeks after looking the ground over for the best thing , adopted for trial a modified form of pan fire , the pan being ... week or two , discovered that the fuel account was growing visibly larger . Perhaps it is not strange that these ...
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Page 66 - ... for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years.
Page 59 - The earth round the place, for above two miles, has this surprising property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth ; the flame makes the soil hot, but does not consume it, nor affect what is near it with any degree of heat.
Page 59 - When the weather is thick and hazy, the springs boil up the higher, and the naphtha often takes fire on the surface of the earth, and runs in a flame into the sea in great quantities, to a distance almost incredible.
Page 59 - ... close the mouth of the spring : sometimes it is quite closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the spring, which is resisted in one place, breaks out in another. Some of the springs, which have not been long open, form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter.
Page 129 - ... immersion; but this practice was soon abandoned and injection by pressure substituted. In 1838 Sir William Burnett, formerly Director General of the Medical Department of the English Navy, made known to the public his new process for treating wood. The invention consists of destroyng the tendencies of certain vegetable and animal substances to decay by submitting them to the action of chloride of zinc. The degree of dilution recommended by Mr. Burnett is one part volume by fifty parts of water....
Page 28 - This method of transmitting power depends upon two principles in mechanics: (1) The dynamic force is measured by the product of the force and the velocity with which it moves ; (2) In mechanical work, power may be exchanged for velocity, and velocity for power. To illustrate, let us suppose a bar of iron, having a cross sectional area of one square inch, to move endlong at the rate of two feet per second. Now, if the resistance overcome is say 5,000 pounds, work will be performed at the rate of 10,000...
Page 9 - AM for the election of a Board of Directors for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Page 25 - The Sawyer spindle was limited in speed. With an unbalanced load it would vibrate and gyrate, at more than 7,500 turns per minute, so as to become useless. The Rabbeth spindle, on the contrary, will bear any speed desired, and the limit of production of the frame is transferred from the speed that the spindles will bear to the speed with which operatives can make good piecings of yarn broken in the o|)eration of spinning.