Net
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Two-page encyclopedia article defining netting as a knotted-mesh fabric and describing its uses, especially fishing nets, along with net terminology such as head, foot, mesh and accrues. It explains hand-netting with the needle and mesh-pin, the fisherman's knot and the bend knot, and traces machine netting from the 1778 patent through Jacquard, Paterson, Ritchie, Pecqueur, and Baudouin and Jouannin. It ends with a short section on wire netting and its machine manufacture.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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