A Chronicle of Textile Machinery: 1824-1924
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A centennial history of the Saco-Lowell Shops, privately printed in Boston in 1924, tracing American cotton and worsted textile machinery manufacture from 1824 to 1924. After an introduction on early spinning and weaving and the English inventions, chapters cover the Lowell Shop, the Newton Shop (Otis Pettee and the Pettee Machine Works), the Biddeford Shop (Saco-Pettee), a century of machinery progress, and Saco-Lowell installations abroad. Illustrated with portraits of company officers, views of shops and plants, machines such as pickers, cards, roving and spinning frames, and mills in China, Japan, Mexico and Peru.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1924
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 86
- Archive notes
- Copyright expired
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