Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum South Kensington
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A 1921 Board of Education catalogue of the textile machinery collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington, with descriptive and historical notes on each object. It is arranged by process: cotton preparing and spinning, wool, silk reeling and throwing, looms and shedding motions (including Jacquard and power looms), knitting, finishing, dyeing and printing, sewing machines, and rope-making. Entries give donors, dates, inventory numbers and technical explanations of how each machine worked. Three plates of photographs at the end illustrate cotton gins, spinning wheels, Hargreaves's jenny, Crompton's mule, a Jacquard apparatus and sewing machines. There is a list of donors and an index.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1921
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 78
- Archive notes
- scanned images provided by Stacey Harvey-Brown.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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