The Machinery of the Exhibition as Applied to Textile Manufactures
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An 1851 Art Journal article by Lewis D. B. Gordon, Regius Professor of Mechanics at Glasgow, explaining for general readers the textile machinery shown at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. It moves from simple to complex processes: silk reeling, cleaning, spinning and doubling; cotton ginning, opening, carding, drawing, throstle and mule spinning; then warping, sizing and power weaving. The engravings show silk winding and spinning frames, a mule, a warping machine, a sizing machine, a hand loom with draw-boy and Harrison's power loom. Pattern weaving, the Jacquard and the draw-loom are only briefly mentioned.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1851
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
- Archive notes
- The Crystal Palace Exhibition
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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